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  <div class="section" id="module-logging">
<h1>16.6. <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt> &#8212; Logging facility for Python<a class="headerlink" href="#module-logging" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p id="index-404">
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.3.</span></p>
<p>This module defines functions and classes which implement a flexible error
logging system for applications.</p>
<p>Logging is performed by calling methods on instances of the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt>
class (hereafter called <em>loggers</em>). Each instance has a name, and they are
conceptually arranged in a namespace hierarchy using dots (periods) as
separators. For example, a logger named &#8220;scan&#8221; is the parent of loggers
&#8220;scan.text&#8221;, &#8220;scan.html&#8221; and &#8220;scan.pdf&#8221;. Logger names can be anything you want,
and indicate the area of an application in which a logged message originates.</p>
<p>Logged messages also have levels of importance associated with them. The default
levels provided are <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">DEBUG</span></tt>, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">INFO</span></tt>, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">WARNING</span></tt>,
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt> and <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">CRITICAL</span></tt>. As a convenience, you indicate the
importance of a logged message by calling an appropriate method of
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt>. The methods are <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.info" class="reference internal" href="#logging.info"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">info()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.warning" class="reference internal" href="#logging.warning"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">warning()</span></tt></a>,
<a title="logging.error" class="reference internal" href="#logging.error"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">error()</span></tt></a> and <a title="logging.critical" class="reference internal" href="#logging.critical"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">critical()</span></tt></a>, which mirror the default levels. You are not
constrained to use these levels: you can specify your own and use a more general
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt> method, <a title="logging.log" class="reference internal" href="#logging.log"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">log()</span></tt></a>, which takes an explicit level argument.</p>
<div class="section" id="logging-tutorial">
<h2>16.6.1. Logging tutorial<a class="headerlink" href="#logging-tutorial" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The key benefit of having the logging API provided by a standard library module
is that all Python modules can participate in logging, so your application log
can include messages from third-party modules.</p>
<p>It is, of course, possible to log messages with different verbosity levels or to
different destinations.  Support for writing log messages to files, HTTP
GET/POST locations, email via SMTP, generic sockets, or OS-specific logging
mechanisms are all supported by the standard module.  You can also create your
own log destination class if you have special requirements not met by any of the
built-in classes.</p>
<div class="section" id="simple-examples">
<h3>16.6.1.1. Simple examples<a class="headerlink" href="#simple-examples" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Most applications are probably going to want to log to a file, so let&#8217;s start
with that case. Using the <a title="logging.basicConfig" class="reference internal" href="#logging.basicConfig"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">basicConfig()</span></tt></a> function, we can set up the
default handler so that debug messages are written to a file:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>
<span class="n">LOG_FILENAME</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&#39;/tmp/logging_example.out&#39;</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">basicConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">LOG_FILENAME</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">,)</span>

<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;This message should go to the log file&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>And now if we open the file and look at what we have, we should find the log
message:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>DEBUG:root:This message should go to the log file</pre>
</div>
<p>If you run the script repeatedly, the additional log messages are appended to
the file.  To create a new file each time, you can pass a filemode argument to
<a title="logging.basicConfig" class="reference internal" href="#logging.basicConfig"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">basicConfig()</span></tt></a> with a value of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'w'</span></tt>.  Rather than managing the file size
yourself, though, it is simpler to use a <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">RotatingFileHandler</span></tt>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">glob</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging.handlers</span>

<span class="n">LOG_FILENAME</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&#39;/tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out&#39;</span>

<span class="c"># Set up a specific logger with our desired output level</span>
<span class="n">my_logger</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;MyLogger&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">my_logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># Add the log message handler to the logger</span>
<span class="n">handler</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">handlers</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">RotatingFileHandler</span><span class="p">(</span>
              <span class="n">LOG_FILENAME</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">maxBytes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">20</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">backupCount</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">5</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">my_logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">addHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">handler</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># Log some messages</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">20</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="n">my_logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;i = </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s">&#39;</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">i</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># See what files are created</span>
<span class="n">logfiles</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">glob</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">glob</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">*&#39;</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">LOG_FILENAME</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">filename</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">logfiles</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">filename</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The result should be 6 separate files, each with part of the log history for the
application:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>/tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out
/tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out.1
/tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out.2
/tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out.3
/tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out.4
/tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out.5</pre>
</div>
<p>The most current file is always <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/tmp/logging_rotatingfile_example.out</span></tt>,
and each time it reaches the size limit it is renamed with the suffix
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.1</span></tt>. Each of the existing backup files is renamed to increment the suffix
(<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.1</span></tt> becomes <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.2</span></tt>, etc.)  and the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.5</span></tt> file is erased.</p>
<p>Obviously this example sets the log length much much too small as an extreme
example.  You would want to set <em>maxBytes</em> to an appropriate value.</p>
<p>Another useful feature of the logging API is the ability to produce different
messages at different log levels.  This allows you to instrument your code with
debug messages, for example, but turning the log level down so that those debug
messages are not written for your production system.  The default levels are
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CRITICAL</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">WARNING</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">INFO</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">DEBUG</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NOTSET</span></tt>.</p>
<p>The logger, handler, and log message call each specify a level.  The log message
is only emitted if the handler and logger are configured to emit messages of
that level or lower.  For example, if a message is <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CRITICAL</span></tt>, and the logger
is set to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt>, the message is emitted.  If a message is a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">WARNING</span></tt>, and
the logger is set to produce only <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt>s, the message is not emitted:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">sys</span>

<span class="n">LEVELS</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="s">&#39;debug&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">,</span>
          <span class="s">&#39;info&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">INFO</span><span class="p">,</span>
          <span class="s">&#39;warning&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">WARNING</span><span class="p">,</span>
          <span class="s">&#39;error&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ERROR</span><span class="p">,</span>
          <span class="s">&#39;critical&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">CRITICAL</span><span class="p">}</span>

<span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sys</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">argv</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="mf">1</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="n">level_name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">sys</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">argv</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mf">1</span><span class="p">]</span>
    <span class="n">level</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">LEVELS</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">level_name</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">NOTSET</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">basicConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">level</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;This is a debug message&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;This is an info message&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warning</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;This is a warning message&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">error</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;This is an error message&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">critical</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;This is a critical error message&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Run the script with an argument like &#8216;debug&#8217; or &#8216;warning&#8217; to see which messages
show up at different levels:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>$ python logging_level_example.py debug
DEBUG:root:This is a debug message
INFO:root:This is an info message
WARNING:root:This is a warning message
ERROR:root:This is an error message
CRITICAL:root:This is a critical error message

$ python logging_level_example.py info
INFO:root:This is an info message
WARNING:root:This is a warning message
ERROR:root:This is an error message
CRITICAL:root:This is a critical error message</pre>
</div>
<p>You will notice that these log messages all have <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">root</span></tt> embedded in them.  The
logging module supports a hierarchy of loggers with different names.  An easy
way to tell where a specific log message comes from is to use a separate logger
object for each of your modules.  Each new logger &#8220;inherits&#8221; the configuration
of its parent, and log messages sent to a logger include the name of that
logger.  Optionally, each logger can be configured differently, so that messages
from different modules are handled in different ways.  Let&#8217;s look at a simple
example of how to log from different modules so it is easy to trace the source
of the message:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">basicConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">WARNING</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">logger1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;package1.module1&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;package2.module2&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">logger1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warning</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;This message comes from one module&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warning</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;And this message comes from another module&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>And the output:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>$ python logging_modules_example.py
WARNING:package1.module1:This message comes from one module
WARNING:package2.module2:And this message comes from another module</pre>
</div>
<p>There are many more options for configuring logging, including different log
message formatting options, having messages delivered to multiple destinations,
and changing the configuration of a long-running application on the fly using a
socket interface.  All of these options are covered in depth in the library
module documentation.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="loggers">
<h3>16.6.1.2. Loggers<a class="headerlink" href="#loggers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The logging library takes a modular approach and offers the several categories
of components: loggers, handlers, filters, and formatters.  Loggers expose the
interface that application code directly uses.  Handlers send the log records to
the appropriate destination. Filters provide a finer grained facility for
determining which log records to send on to a handler.  Formatters specify the
layout of the resultant log record.</p>
<p><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt> objects have a threefold job.  First, they expose several
methods to application code so that applications can log messages at runtime.
Second, logger objects determine which log messages to act upon based upon
severity (the default filtering facility) or filter objects.  Third, logger
objects pass along relevant log messages to all interested log handlers.</p>
<p>The most widely used methods on logger objects fall into two categories:
configuration and message sending.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a title="logging.Logger.setLevel" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.setLevel"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.setLevel()</span></tt></a> specifies the lowest-severity log message a logger
will handle, where debug is the lowest built-in severity level and critical is
the highest built-in severity.  For example, if the severity level is info,
the logger will handle only info, warning, error, and critical messages and
will ignore debug messages.</li>
<li><a title="logging.Logger.addFilter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.addFilter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.addFilter()</span></tt></a> and <a title="logging.Logger.removeFilter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.removeFilter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.removeFilter()</span></tt></a> add and remove filter
objects from the logger object.  This tutorial does not address filters.</li>
</ul>
<p>With the logger object configured, the following methods create log messages:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a title="logging.Logger.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.debug()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.Logger.info" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.info"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.info()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.Logger.warning" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.warning"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.warning()</span></tt></a>,
<a title="logging.Logger.error" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.error"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.error()</span></tt></a>, and <a title="logging.Logger.critical" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.critical"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.critical()</span></tt></a> all create log records with
a message and a level that corresponds to their respective method names. The
message is actually a format string, which may contain the standard string
substitution syntax of <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">%s</span></tt>, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">%d</span></tt>, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">%f</span></tt>, and so on.  The
rest of their arguments is a list of objects that correspond with the
substitution fields in the message.  With regard to <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">**kwargs</span></tt>, the
logging methods care only about a keyword of <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">exc_info</span></tt> and use it to
determine whether to log exception information.</li>
<li><a title="logging.Logger.exception" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.exception"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.exception()</span></tt></a> creates a log message similar to
<a title="logging.Logger.error" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.error"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.error()</span></tt></a>.  The difference is that <a title="logging.Logger.exception" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.exception"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.exception()</span></tt></a> dumps a
stack trace along with it.  Call this method only from an exception handler.</li>
<li><a title="logging.Logger.log" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.log"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.log()</span></tt></a> takes a log level as an explicit argument.  This is a
little more verbose for logging messages than using the log level convenience
methods listed above, but this is how to log at custom log levels.</li>
</ul>
<p><a title="logging.getLogger" class="reference internal" href="#logging.getLogger"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">getLogger()</span></tt></a> returns a reference to a logger instance with the specified
if it it is provided, or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">root</span></tt> if not.  The names are period-separated
hierarchical structures.  Multiple calls to <a title="logging.getLogger" class="reference internal" href="#logging.getLogger"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">getLogger()</span></tt></a> with the same name
will return a reference to the same logger object.  Loggers that are further
down in the hierarchical list are children of loggers higher up in the list.
For example, given a logger with a name of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">foo</span></tt>, loggers with names of
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">foo.bar</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">foo.bar.baz</span></tt>, and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">foo.bam</span></tt> are all children of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">foo</span></tt>.
Child loggers propagate messages up to their parent loggers.  Because of this,
it is unnecessary to define and configure all the loggers an application uses.
It is sufficient to configure a top-level logger and create child loggers as
needed.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="handlers">
<h3>16.6.1.3. Handlers<a class="headerlink" href="#handlers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt> objects are responsible for dispatching the appropriate log
messages (based on the log messages&#8217; severity) to the handler&#8217;s specified
destination.  Logger objects can add zero or more handler objects to themselves
with an <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">addHandler()</span></tt> method.  As an example scenario, an application may
want to send all log messages to a log file, all log messages of error or higher
to stdout, and all messages of critical to an email address.  This scenario
requires three individual handlers where each handler is responsible for sending
messages of a specific severity to a specific location.</p>
<p>The standard library includes quite a few handler types; this tutorial uses only
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">StreamHandler</span></tt> and <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">FileHandler</span></tt> in its examples.</p>
<p>There are very few methods in a handler for application developers to concern
themselves with.  The only handler methods that seem relevant for application
developers who are using the built-in handler objects (that is, not creating
custom handlers) are the following configuration methods:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The <a title="logging.Handler.setLevel" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Handler.setLevel"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler.setLevel()</span></tt></a> method, just as in logger objects, specifies the
lowest severity that will be dispatched to the appropriate destination.  Why
are there two <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">setLevel()</span></tt> methods?  The level set in the logger
determines which severity of messages it will pass to its handlers.  The level
set in each handler determines which messages that handler will send on.
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">setFormatter()</span></tt> selects a Formatter object for this handler to use.</li>
<li><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">addFilter()</span></tt> and <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">removeFilter()</span></tt> respectively configure and
deconfigure filter objects on handlers.</li>
</ul>
<p>Application code should not directly instantiate and use handlers.  Instead, the
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt> class is a base class that defines the interface that all
Handlers should have and establishes some default behavior that child classes
can use (or override).</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="formatters">
<h3>16.6.1.4. Formatters<a class="headerlink" href="#formatters" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Formatter objects configure the final order, structure, and contents of the log
message.  Unlike the base <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.Handler</span></tt> class, application code may
instantiate formatter classes, although you could likely subclass the formatter
if your application needs special behavior.  The constructor takes two optional
arguments: a message format string and a date format string.  If there is no
message format string, the default is to use the raw message.  If there is no
date format string, the default date format is:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S</pre>
</div>
<p>with the milliseconds tacked on at the end.</p>
<p>The message format string uses <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(&lt;dictionary</span> <span class="pre">key&gt;)s</span></tt> styled string
substitution; the possible keys are documented in <a class="reference internal" href="#formatter-objects"><em>Formatter Objects</em></a>.</p>
<p>The following message format string will log the time in a human-readable
format, the severity of the message, and the contents of the message, in that
order:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="si">%(asctime)s</span><span class="s"> - </span><span class="si">%(levelname)s</span><span class="s"> - </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="configuring-logging">
<h3>16.6.1.5. Configuring Logging<a class="headerlink" href="#configuring-logging" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Programmers can configure logging either by creating loggers, handlers, and
formatters explicitly in a main module with the configuration methods listed
above (using Python code), or by creating a logging config file.  The following
code is an example of configuring a very simple logger, a console handler, and a
simple formatter in a Python module:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="c"># create logger</span>
<span class="n">logger</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;simple_example&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># create console handler and set level to debug</span>
<span class="n">ch</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">StreamHandler</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">ch</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># create formatter</span>
<span class="n">formatter</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Formatter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="si">%(asctime)s</span><span class="s"> - </span><span class="si">%(name)s</span><span class="s"> - </span><span class="si">%(levelname)s</span><span class="s"> - </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># add formatter to ch</span>
<span class="n">ch</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setFormatter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">formatter</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># add ch to logger</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">addHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ch</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># &quot;application&quot; code</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;debug message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;info message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;warn message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">error</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;error message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">critical</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;critical message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Running this module from the command line produces the following output:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>$ python simple_logging_module.py
2005-03-19 15:10:26,618 - simple_example - DEBUG - debug message
2005-03-19 15:10:26,620 - simple_example - INFO - info message
2005-03-19 15:10:26,695 - simple_example - WARNING - warn message
2005-03-19 15:10:26,697 - simple_example - ERROR - error message
2005-03-19 15:10:26,773 - simple_example - CRITICAL - critical message</pre>
</div>
<p>The following Python module creates a logger, handler, and formatter nearly
identical to those in the example listed above, with the only difference being
the names of the objects:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging.config</span>

<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fileConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;logging.conf&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># create logger</span>
<span class="n">logger</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;simpleExample&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># &quot;application&quot; code</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;debug message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;info message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;warn message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">error</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;error message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">critical</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;critical message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Here is the logging.conf file:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>[loggers]
keys=root,simpleExample

[handlers]
keys=consoleHandler

[formatters]
keys=simpleFormatter

[logger_root]
level=DEBUG
handlers=consoleHandler

[logger_simpleExample]
level=DEBUG
handlers=consoleHandler
qualname=simpleExample
propagate=0

[handler_consoleHandler]
class=StreamHandler
level=DEBUG
formatter=simpleFormatter
args=(sys.stdout,)

[formatter_simpleFormatter]
format=%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s
datefmt=</pre>
</div>
<p>The output is nearly identical to that of the non-config-file-based example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>$ python simple_logging_config.py
2005-03-19 15:38:55,977 - simpleExample - DEBUG - debug message
2005-03-19 15:38:55,979 - simpleExample - INFO - info message
2005-03-19 15:38:56,054 - simpleExample - WARNING - warn message
2005-03-19 15:38:56,055 - simpleExample - ERROR - error message
2005-03-19 15:38:56,130 - simpleExample - CRITICAL - critical message</pre>
</div>
<p>You can see that the config file approach has a few advantages over the Python
code approach, mainly separation of configuration and code and the ability of
noncoders to easily modify the logging properties.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="configuring-logging-for-a-library">
<span id="library-config"></span><h3>16.6.1.6. Configuring Logging for a Library<a class="headerlink" href="#configuring-logging-for-a-library" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>When developing a library which uses logging, some consideration needs to be
given to its configuration. If the using application does not use logging, and
library code makes logging calls, then a one-off message &#8220;No handlers could be
found for logger X.Y.Z&#8221; is printed to the console. This message is intended
to catch mistakes in logging configuration, but will confuse an application
developer who is not aware of logging by the library.</p>
<p>In addition to documenting how a library uses logging, a good way to configure
library logging so that it does not cause a spurious message is to add a
handler which does nothing. This avoids the message being printed, since a
handler will be found: it just doesn&#8217;t produce any output. If the library user
configures logging for application use, presumably that configuration will add
some handlers, and if levels are suitably configured then logging calls made
in library code will send output to those handlers, as normal.</p>
<p>A do-nothing handler can be simply defined as follows:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">NullHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Handler</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">emit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">record</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">pass</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>An instance of this handler should be added to the top-level logger of the
logging namespace used by the library. If all logging by a library <em>foo</em> is
done using loggers with names matching &#8220;foo.x.y&#8221;, then the code:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="n">h</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">NullHandler</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;foo&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">addHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">h</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>should have the desired effect. If an organisation produces a number of
libraries, then the logger name specified can be &#8220;orgname.foo&#8221; rather than
just &#8220;foo&#8221;.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="logging-levels">
<h2>16.6.2. Logging Levels<a class="headerlink" href="#logging-levels" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The numeric values of logging levels are given in the following table. These are
primarily of interest if you want to define your own levels, and need them to
have specific values relative to the predefined levels. If you define a level
with the same numeric value, it overwrites the predefined value; the predefined
name is lost.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="48%" />
<col width="52%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Level</th>
<th class="head">Numeric value</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CRITICAL</span></tt></td>
<td>50</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt></td>
<td>40</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">WARNING</span></tt></td>
<td>30</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">INFO</span></tt></td>
<td>20</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">DEBUG</span></tt></td>
<td>10</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NOTSET</span></tt></td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Levels can also be associated with loggers, being set either by the developer or
through loading a saved logging configuration. When a logging method is called
on a logger, the logger compares its own level with the level associated with
the method call. If the logger&#8217;s level is higher than the method call&#8217;s, no
logging message is actually generated. This is the basic mechanism controlling
the verbosity of logging output.</p>
<p>Logging messages are encoded as instances of the <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> class. When
a logger decides to actually log an event, a <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> instance is
created from the logging message.</p>
<p>Logging messages are subjected to a dispatch mechanism through the use of
<em>handlers</em>, which are instances of subclasses of the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt>
class. Handlers are responsible for ensuring that a logged message (in the form
of a <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a>) ends up in a particular location (or set of locations)
which is useful for the target audience for that message (such as end users,
support desk staff, system administrators, developers). Handlers are passed
<a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> instances intended for particular destinations. Each logger
can have zero, one or more handlers associated with it (via the
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">addHandler()</span></tt> method of <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt>). In addition to any handlers
directly associated with a logger, <em>all handlers associated with all ancestors
of the logger</em> are called to dispatch the message.</p>
<p>Just as for loggers, handlers can have levels associated with them. A handler&#8217;s
level acts as a filter in the same way as a logger&#8217;s level does. If a handler
decides to actually dispatch an event, the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">emit()</span></tt> method is used to send
the message to its destination. Most user-defined subclasses of <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt>
will need to override this <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">emit()</span></tt>.</p>
<p>In addition to the base <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt> class, many useful subclasses are
provided:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">StreamHandler</span></tt> instances send error messages to streams (file-like
objects).</li>
<li><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">FileHandler</span></tt> instances send error messages to disk files.</li>
<li><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers.BaseRotatingHandler</span></tt> is the base class for handlers that
rotate log files at a certain point. It is not meant to be  instantiated
directly. Instead, use <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">RotatingFileHandler</span></tt> or
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">TimedRotatingFileHandler</span></tt>.</li>
<li><a title="logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers.RotatingFileHandler</span></tt></a> instances send error messages to disk files,
with support for maximum log file sizes and log file rotation.</li>
<li><a title="logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler</span></tt></a> instances send error messages to disk files
rotating the log file at certain timed intervals.</li>
<li><a title="logging.handlers.SocketHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers.SocketHandler</span></tt></a> instances send error messages to TCP/IP sockets.</li>
<li><a title="logging.handlers.DatagramHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.DatagramHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers.DatagramHandler</span></tt></a> instances send error messages to UDP sockets.</li>
<li><a title="logging.handlers.SMTPHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SMTPHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers.SMTPHandler</span></tt></a> instances send error messages to a designated email
address.</li>
<li><a title="logging.handlers.SysLogHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SysLogHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers.SysLogHandler</span></tt></a> instances send error messages to a Unix syslog daemon,
possibly on a remote machine.</li>
<li><a title="logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers.NTEventLogHandler</span></tt></a> instances send error messages to a Windows
NT/2000/XP event log.</li>
<li><a title="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers.MemoryHandler</span></tt></a> instances send error messages to a buffer in memory,
which is flushed whenever specific criteria are met.</li>
<li><a title="logging.handlers.HTTPHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.HTTPHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers.HTTPHandler</span></tt></a> instances send error messages to an HTTP server using
either <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></tt> or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">POST</span></tt> semantics.</li>
</ol>
<p>#. <a title="logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers.WatchedFileHandler</span></tt></a> instances watch the file they are logging to. If
the file changes, it is closed and reopened using the file name. This handler
is only useful on Unix-like systems; Windows does not support the underlying
mechanism used.</p>
<p>The <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">StreamHandler</span></tt> and <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">FileHandler</span></tt>
classes are defined in the core logging package. The other handlers are
defined in a sub- module, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt>. (There is also another
sub-module, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.config</span></tt>, for configuration functionality.)</p>
<p>Logged messages are formatted for presentation through instances of the
<a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> class. They are initialized with a format string suitable for
use with the % operator and a dictionary.</p>
<p>For formatting multiple messages in a batch, instances of
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">BufferingFormatter</span></tt> can be used. In addition to the format string (which
is applied to each message in the batch), there is provision for header and
trailer format strings.</p>
<p>When filtering based on logger level and/or handler level is not enough,
instances of <a title="logging.Filter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Filter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Filter</span></tt></a> can be added to both <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt> and
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt> instances (through their <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">addFilter()</span></tt> method). Before
deciding to process a message further, both loggers and handlers consult all
their filters for permission. If any filter returns a false value, the message
is not processed further.</p>
<p>The basic <a title="logging.Filter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Filter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Filter</span></tt></a> functionality allows filtering by specific logger
name. If this feature is used, messages sent to the named logger and its
children are allowed through the filter, and all others dropped.</p>
<p>In addition to the classes described above, there are a number of module- level
functions.</p>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.getLogger">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">getLogger</tt><big>(</big><span class="optional">[</span><em>name</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.getLogger" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a logger with the specified name or, if no name is specified, return a
logger which is the root logger of the hierarchy. If specified, the name is
typically a dot-separated hierarchical name like <em>&#8220;a&#8221;</em>, <em>&#8220;a.b&#8221;</em> or <em>&#8220;a.b.c.d&#8221;</em>.
Choice of these names is entirely up to the developer who is using logging.</p>
<p>All calls to this function with a given name return the same logger instance.
This means that logger instances never need to be passed between different parts
of an application.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.getLoggerClass">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">getLoggerClass</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.getLoggerClass" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return either the standard <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt> class, or the last class passed to
<a title="logging.setLoggerClass" class="reference internal" href="#logging.setLoggerClass"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">setLoggerClass()</span></tt></a>. This function may be called from within a new class
definition, to ensure that installing a customised <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt> class will
not undo customisations already applied by other code. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>class MyLogger(logging.getLoggerClass()):
    # ... override behaviour here</pre>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.debug">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">debug</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.debug" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">DEBUG</span></tt> on the root logger. The <em>msg</em> is the
message format string, and the <em>args</em> are the arguments which are merged into
<em>msg</em> using the string formatting operator. (Note that this means that you can
use keywords in the format string, together with a single dictionary argument.)</p>
<p>There are two keyword arguments in <em>kwargs</em> which are inspected: <em>exc_info</em>
which, if it does not evaluate as false, causes exception information to be
added to the logging message. If an exception tuple (in the format returned by
<a title="sys.exc_info" class="reference external" href="sys.html#sys.exc_info"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">sys.exc_info()</span></tt></a>) is provided, it is used; otherwise, <a title="sys.exc_info" class="reference external" href="sys.html#sys.exc_info"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">sys.exc_info()</span></tt></a>
is called to get the exception information.</p>
<p>The other optional keyword argument is <em>extra</em> which can be used to pass a
dictionary which is used to populate the __dict__ of the LogRecord created for
the logging event with user-defined attributes. These custom attributes can then
be used as you like. For example, they could be incorporated into logged
messages. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">FORMAT</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="si">%(asctime)-15s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(clientip)s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(user)-8s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">basicConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">FORMAT</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">d</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="s">&#39;clientip&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&#39;192.168.0.1&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;user&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&#39;fbloggs&#39;</span><span class="p">}</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warning</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;Protocol problem: </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;connection reset&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">extra</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">d</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>would print something like</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>2006-02-08 22:20:02,165 192.168.0.1 fbloggs  Protocol problem: connection reset</pre>
</div>
<p>The keys in the dictionary passed in <em>extra</em> should not clash with the keys used
by the logging system. (See the <a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> documentation for more
information on which keys are used by the logging system.)</p>
<p>If you choose to use these attributes in logged messages, you need to exercise
some care. In the above example, for instance, the <a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> has been
set up with a format string which expects &#8216;clientip&#8217; and &#8216;user&#8217; in the attribute
dictionary of the LogRecord. If these are missing, the message will not be
logged because a string formatting exception will occur. So in this case, you
always need to pass the <em>extra</em> dictionary with these keys.</p>
<p>While this might be annoying, this feature is intended for use in specialized
circumstances, such as multi-threaded servers where the same code executes in
many contexts, and interesting conditions which arise are dependent on this
context (such as remote client IP address and authenticated user name, in the
above example). In such circumstances, it is likely that specialized
<a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a>s would be used with particular <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt>s.</p>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.5: </span><em>extra</em> was added.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.info">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">info</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.info" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">INFO</span></tt> on the root logger. The arguments are
interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.warning">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">warning</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.warning" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">WARNING</span></tt> on the root logger. The arguments are
interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.error">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">error</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.error" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt> on the root logger. The arguments are
interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.critical">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">critical</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.critical" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">CRITICAL</span></tt> on the root logger. The arguments
are interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.exception">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">exception</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.exception" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt> on the root logger. The arguments are
interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>. Exception info is added to the logging
message. This function should only be called from an exception handler.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.log">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">log</tt><big>(</big><em>level</em>, <em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.log" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with level <em>level</em> on the root logger. The other arguments are
interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.disable">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">disable</tt><big>(</big><em>lvl</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.disable" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Provides an overriding level <em>lvl</em> for all loggers which takes precedence over
the logger&#8217;s own level. When the need arises to temporarily throttle logging
output down across the whole application, this function can be useful.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.addLevelName">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">addLevelName</tt><big>(</big><em>lvl</em>, <em>levelName</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.addLevelName" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Associates level <em>lvl</em> with text <em>levelName</em> in an internal dictionary, which is
used to map numeric levels to a textual representation, for example when a
<a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> formats a message. This function can also be used to define
your own levels. The only constraints are that all levels used must be
registered using this function, levels should be positive integers and they
should increase in increasing order of severity.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.getLevelName">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">getLevelName</tt><big>(</big><em>lvl</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.getLevelName" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Returns the textual representation of logging level <em>lvl</em>. If the level is one
of the predefined levels <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">CRITICAL</span></tt>, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt>, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">WARNING</span></tt>,
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">INFO</span></tt> or <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">DEBUG</span></tt> then you get the corresponding string. If you
have associated levels with names using <a title="logging.addLevelName" class="reference internal" href="#logging.addLevelName"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">addLevelName()</span></tt></a> then the name you
have associated with <em>lvl</em> is returned. If a numeric value corresponding to one
of the defined levels is passed in, the corresponding string representation is
returned. Otherwise, the string &#8220;Level %s&#8221; % lvl is returned.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.makeLogRecord">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">makeLogRecord</tt><big>(</big><em>attrdict</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.makeLogRecord" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Creates and returns a new <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> instance whose attributes are
defined by <em>attrdict</em>. This function is useful for taking a pickled
<a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> attribute dictionary, sent over a socket, and reconstituting
it as a <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> instance at the receiving end.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.basicConfig">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">basicConfig</tt><big>(</big><span class="optional">[</span><em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.basicConfig" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Does basic configuration for the logging system by creating a
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">StreamHandler</span></tt> with a default <a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> and adding it to the
root logger. The function does nothing if any handlers have been defined for
the root logger. The functions <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.info" class="reference internal" href="#logging.info"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">info()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.warning" class="reference internal" href="#logging.warning"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">warning()</span></tt></a>,
<a title="logging.error" class="reference internal" href="#logging.error"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">error()</span></tt></a> and <a title="logging.critical" class="reference internal" href="#logging.critical"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">critical()</span></tt></a> will call <a title="logging.basicConfig" class="reference internal" href="#logging.basicConfig"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">basicConfig()</span></tt></a> automatically
if no handlers are defined for the root logger.</p>
<p>This function does nothing if the root logger already has handlers configured.</p>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.4: </span>Formerly, <a title="logging.basicConfig" class="reference internal" href="#logging.basicConfig"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">basicConfig()</span></tt></a> did not take any keyword arguments.</p>
<p>The following keyword arguments are supported.</p>
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<colgroup>
<col width="24%" />
<col width="76%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Format</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">filename</span></tt></td>
<td>Specifies that a FileHandler be created,
using the specified filename, rather than a
StreamHandler.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">filemode</span></tt></td>
<td>Specifies the mode to open the file, if
filename is specified (if filemode is
unspecified, it defaults to &#8216;a&#8217;).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">format</span></tt></td>
<td>Use the specified format string for the
handler.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">datefmt</span></tt></td>
<td>Use the specified date/time format.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">level</span></tt></td>
<td>Set the root logger level to the specified
level.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">stream</span></tt></td>
<td>Use the specified stream to initialize the
StreamHandler. Note that this argument is
incompatible with &#8216;filename&#8217; - if both are
present, &#8216;stream&#8217; is ignored.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.shutdown">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">shutdown</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.shutdown" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Informs the logging system to perform an orderly shutdown by flushing and
closing all handlers. This should be called at application exit and no
further use of the logging system should be made after this call.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.setLoggerClass">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">setLoggerClass</tt><big>(</big><em>klass</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.setLoggerClass" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Tells the logging system to use the class <em>klass</em> when instantiating a logger.
The class should define <a title="object.__init__" class="reference external" href="../reference/datamodel.html#object.__init__"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">__init__()</span></tt></a> such that only a name argument is
required, and the <a title="object.__init__" class="reference external" href="../reference/datamodel.html#object.__init__"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">__init__()</span></tt></a> should call <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger.__init__()</span></tt>. This
function is typically called before any loggers are instantiated by applications
which need to use custom logger behavior.</dd></dl>

<div class="admonition-see-also admonition seealso">
<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
<dl class="last docutils">
<dt><span class="target" id="index-405"></span><a class="reference external" href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0282"><strong>PEP 282</strong></a> - A Logging System</dt>
<dd>The proposal which described this feature for inclusion in the Python standard
library.</dd>
<dt><a class="reference external" href="http://www.red-dove.com/python_logging.html">Original Python logging package</a></dt>
<dd>This is the original source for the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt> package.  The version of the
package available from this site is suitable for use with Python 1.5.2, 2.1.x
and 2.2.x, which do not include the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt> package in the standard
library.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="logger-objects">
<h2>16.6.3. Logger Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#logger-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Loggers have the following attributes and methods. Note that Loggers are never
instantiated directly, but always through the module-level function
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.getLogger(name)</span></tt>.</p>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="logging.Logger.propagate">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">propagate</tt><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.propagate" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>If this evaluates to false, logging messages are not passed by this logger or by
child loggers to higher level (ancestor) loggers. The constructor sets this
attribute to 1.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.setLevel">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">setLevel</tt><big>(</big><em>lvl</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.setLevel" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Sets the threshold for this logger to <em>lvl</em>. Logging messages which are less
severe than <em>lvl</em> will be ignored. When a logger is created, the level is set to
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">NOTSET</span></tt> (which causes all messages to be processed when the logger is
the root logger, or delegation to the parent when the logger is a non-root
logger). Note that the root logger is created with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">WARNING</span></tt>.</p>
<p>The term &#8220;delegation to the parent&#8221; means that if a logger has a level of
NOTSET, its chain of ancestor loggers is traversed until either an ancestor with
a level other than NOTSET is found, or the root is reached.</p>
<p>If an ancestor is found with a level other than NOTSET, then that ancestor&#8217;s
level is treated as the effective level of the logger where the ancestor search
began, and is used to determine how a logging event is handled.</p>
<p>If the root is reached, and it has a level of NOTSET, then all messages will be
processed. Otherwise, the root&#8217;s level will be used as the effective level.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.isEnabledFor">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">isEnabledFor</tt><big>(</big><em>lvl</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.isEnabledFor" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Indicates if a message of severity <em>lvl</em> would be processed by this logger.
This method checks first the module-level level set by
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.disable(lvl)</span></tt> and then the logger&#8217;s effective level as determined
by <a title="logging.Logger.getEffectiveLevel" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.getEffectiveLevel"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">getEffectiveLevel()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.getEffectiveLevel">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">getEffectiveLevel</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.getEffectiveLevel" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Indicates the effective level for this logger. If a value other than
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">NOTSET</span></tt> has been set using <a title="logging.Logger.setLevel" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Logger.setLevel"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">setLevel()</span></tt></a>, it is returned. Otherwise,
the hierarchy is traversed towards the root until a value other than
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">NOTSET</span></tt> is found, and that value is returned.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.debug">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">debug</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.debug" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">DEBUG</span></tt> on this logger. The <em>msg</em> is the
message format string, and the <em>args</em> are the arguments which are merged into
<em>msg</em> using the string formatting operator. (Note that this means that you can
use keywords in the format string, together with a single dictionary argument.)</p>
<p>There are two keyword arguments in <em>kwargs</em> which are inspected: <em>exc_info</em>
which, if it does not evaluate as false, causes exception information to be
added to the logging message. If an exception tuple (in the format returned by
<a title="sys.exc_info" class="reference external" href="sys.html#sys.exc_info"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">sys.exc_info()</span></tt></a>) is provided, it is used; otherwise, <a title="sys.exc_info" class="reference external" href="sys.html#sys.exc_info"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">sys.exc_info()</span></tt></a>
is called to get the exception information.</p>
<p>The other optional keyword argument is <em>extra</em> which can be used to pass a
dictionary which is used to populate the __dict__ of the LogRecord created for
the logging event with user-defined attributes. These custom attributes can then
be used as you like. For example, they could be incorporated into logged
messages. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">FORMAT</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="si">%(asctime)-15s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(clientip)s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(user)-8s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">basicConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">FORMAT</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">d</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">{</span> <span class="s">&#39;clientip&#39;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&#39;192.168.0.1&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;user&#39;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&#39;fbloggs&#39;</span> <span class="p">}</span>
<span class="n">logger</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;tcpserver&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warning</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;Protocol problem: </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;connection reset&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">extra</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">d</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>would print something like</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>2006-02-08 22:20:02,165 192.168.0.1 fbloggs  Protocol problem: connection reset</pre>
</div>
<p>The keys in the dictionary passed in <em>extra</em> should not clash with the keys used
by the logging system. (See the <a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> documentation for more
information on which keys are used by the logging system.)</p>
<p>If you choose to use these attributes in logged messages, you need to exercise
some care. In the above example, for instance, the <a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> has been
set up with a format string which expects &#8216;clientip&#8217; and &#8216;user&#8217; in the attribute
dictionary of the LogRecord. If these are missing, the message will not be
logged because a string formatting exception will occur. So in this case, you
always need to pass the <em>extra</em> dictionary with these keys.</p>
<p>While this might be annoying, this feature is intended for use in specialized
circumstances, such as multi-threaded servers where the same code executes in
many contexts, and interesting conditions which arise are dependent on this
context (such as remote client IP address and authenticated user name, in the
above example). In such circumstances, it is likely that specialized
<a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a>s would be used with particular <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt>s.</p>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.5: </span><em>extra</em> was added.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.info">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">info</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.info" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">INFO</span></tt> on this logger. The arguments are
interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.warning">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">warning</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.warning" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">WARNING</span></tt> on this logger. The arguments are
interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.error">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">error</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.error" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt> on this logger. The arguments are
interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.critical">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">critical</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.critical" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">CRITICAL</span></tt> on this logger. The arguments are
interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.log">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">log</tt><big>(</big><em>lvl</em>, <em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.log" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with integer level <em>lvl</em> on this logger. The other arguments are
interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.exception">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">exception</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>*args</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.exception" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Logs a message with level <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt> on this logger. The arguments are
interpreted as for <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>. Exception info is added to the logging
message. This method should only be called from an exception handler.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.addFilter">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">addFilter</tt><big>(</big><em>filt</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.addFilter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Adds the specified filter <em>filt</em> to this logger.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.removeFilter">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">removeFilter</tt><big>(</big><em>filt</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.removeFilter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Removes the specified filter <em>filt</em> from this logger.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.filter">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">filter</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.filter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Applies this logger&#8217;s filters to the record and returns a true value if the
record is to be processed.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.addHandler">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">addHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>hdlr</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.addHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Adds the specified handler <em>hdlr</em> to this logger.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.removeHandler">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">removeHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>hdlr</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.removeHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Removes the specified handler <em>hdlr</em> from this logger.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.findCaller">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">findCaller</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.findCaller" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Finds the caller&#8217;s source filename and line number. Returns the filename, line
number and function name as a 3-element tuple.</p>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.4: </span>The function name was added. In earlier versions, the filename and line number
were returned as a 2-element tuple..</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.handle">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">handle</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.handle" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Handles a record by passing it to all handlers associated with this logger and
its ancestors (until a false value of <em>propagate</em> is found). This method is used
for unpickled records received from a socket, as well as those created locally.
Logger-level filtering is applied using <a title="filter" class="reference external" href="functions.html#filter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">filter()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Logger.makeRecord">
<tt class="descclassname">Logger.</tt><tt class="descname">makeRecord</tt><big>(</big><em>name</em>, <em>lvl</em>, <em>fn</em>, <em>lno</em>, <em>msg</em>, <em>args</em>, <em>exc_info</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>func</em>, <em>extra</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Logger.makeRecord" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This is a factory method which can be overridden in subclasses to create
specialized <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> instances.</p>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.5: </span><em>func</em> and <em>extra</em> were added.</p>
</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="basic-example">
<span id="minimal-example"></span><h2>16.6.4. Basic example<a class="headerlink" href="#basic-example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.4: </span>formerly <a title="logging.basicConfig" class="reference internal" href="#logging.basicConfig"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">basicConfig()</span></tt></a> did not take any keyword arguments.</p>
<p>The <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt> package provides a lot of flexibility, and its configuration
can appear daunting.  This section demonstrates that simple use of the logging
package is possible.</p>
<p>The simplest example shows logging to the console:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;A debug message&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;Some information&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warning</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;A shot across the bows&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If you run the above script, you&#8217;ll see this:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>WARNING:root:A shot across the bows</pre>
</div>
<p>Because no particular logger was specified, the system used the root logger. The
debug and info messages didn&#8217;t appear because by default, the root logger is
configured to only handle messages with a severity of WARNING or above. The
message format is also a configuration default, as is the output destination of
the messages - <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sys.stderr</span></tt>. The severity level, the message format and
destination can be easily changed, as shown in the example below:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">basicConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">format</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="si">%(asctime)s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(levelname)s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;/tmp/myapp.log&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">filemode</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;w&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;A debug message&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;Some information&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warning</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;A shot across the bows&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The <a title="logging.basicConfig" class="reference internal" href="#logging.basicConfig"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">basicConfig()</span></tt></a> method is used to change the configuration defaults,
which results in output (written to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/tmp/myapp.log</span></tt>) which should look
something like the following:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>2004-07-02 13:00:08,743 DEBUG A debug message
2004-07-02 13:00:08,743 INFO Some information
2004-07-02 13:00:08,743 WARNING A shot across the bows</pre>
</div>
<p>This time, all messages with a severity of DEBUG or above were handled, and the
format of the messages was also changed, and output went to the specified file
rather than the console.</p>
<p>Formatting uses standard Python string formatting - see section
<a class="reference external" href="stdtypes.html#string-formatting"><em>String Formatting Operations</em></a>. The format string takes the following common
specifiers. For a complete list of specifiers, consult the <a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a>
documentation.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="29%" />
<col width="71%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Format</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(name)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Name of the logger (logging channel).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(levelname)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Text logging level for the message
(<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'DEBUG'</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'INFO'</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'WARNING'</span></tt>,
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'ERROR'</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'CRITICAL'</span></tt>).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(asctime)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Human-readable time when the
<a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> was created.  By default
this is of the form &#8220;2003-07-08 16:49:45,896&#8221;
(the numbers after the comma are millisecond
portion of the time).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(message)s</span></tt></td>
<td>The logged message.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>To change the date/time format, you can pass an additional keyword parameter,
<em>datefmt</em>, as in the following:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">basicConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">format</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="si">%(asctime)s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(levelname)-8s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">datefmt</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;%a, </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s"> %b %Y %H:%M:%S&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;/temp/myapp.log&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">filemode</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;w&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;A debug message&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;Some information&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warning</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;A shot across the bows&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>which would result in output like</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:06:18 DEBUG    A debug message
Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:06:18 INFO     Some information
Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:06:18 WARNING  A shot across the bows</pre>
</div>
<p>The date format string follows the requirements of <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></tt> - see the
documentation for the <a title="Time access and conversions." class="reference external" href="time.html#module-time"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">time</span></tt></a> module.</p>
<p>If, instead of sending logging output to the console or a file, you&#8217;d rather use
a file-like object which you have created separately, you can pass it to
<a title="logging.basicConfig" class="reference internal" href="#logging.basicConfig"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">basicConfig()</span></tt></a> using the <em>stream</em> keyword argument. Note that if both
<em>stream</em> and <em>filename</em> keyword arguments are passed, the <em>stream</em> argument is
ignored.</p>
<p>Of course, you can put variable information in your output. To do this, simply
have the message be a format string and pass in additional arguments containing
the variable information, as in the following example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">basicConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">format</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="si">%(asctime)s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(levelname)-8s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">datefmt</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;%a, </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s"> %b %Y %H:%M:%S&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;/temp/myapp.log&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">filemode</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;w&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">error</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;Pack my box with </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s"> dozen </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&#39;liquor jugs&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>which would result in</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:35:16 ERROR    Pack my box with 5 dozen liquor jugs</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="logging-to-multiple-destinations">
<span id="multiple-destinations"></span><h2>16.6.5. Logging to multiple destinations<a class="headerlink" href="#logging-to-multiple-destinations" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Let&#8217;s say you want to log to console and file with different message formats and
in differing circumstances. Say you want to log messages with levels of DEBUG
and higher to file, and those messages at level INFO and higher to the console.
Let&#8217;s also assume that the file should contain timestamps, but the console
messages should not. Here&#8217;s how you can achieve this:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="c"># set up logging to file - see previous section for more details</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">basicConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">format</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="si">%(asctime)s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(name)-12s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(levelname)-8s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">datefmt</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;%m-</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s"> %H:%M&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">filename</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;/temp/myapp.log&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">filemode</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;w&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># define a Handler which writes INFO messages or higher to the sys.stderr</span>
<span class="n">console</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">StreamHandler</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">console</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">INFO</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># set a format which is simpler for console use</span>
<span class="n">formatter</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Formatter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="si">%(name)-12s</span><span class="s">: </span><span class="si">%(levelname)-8s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># tell the handler to use this format</span>
<span class="n">console</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setFormatter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">formatter</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># add the handler to the root logger</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">addHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">console</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># Now, we can log to the root logger, or any other logger. First the root...</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># Now, define a couple of other loggers which might represent areas in your</span>
<span class="c"># application:</span>

<span class="n">logger1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;myapp.area1&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;myapp.area2&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">logger1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim.&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warning</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;Jail zesty vixen who grabbed pay from quack.&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">error</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;The five boxing wizards jump quickly.&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>When you run this, on the console you will see</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>root        : INFO     Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
myapp.area1 : INFO     How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.
myapp.area2 : WARNING  Jail zesty vixen who grabbed pay from quack.
myapp.area2 : ERROR    The five boxing wizards jump quickly.</pre>
</div>
<p>and in the file you will see something like</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>10-22 22:19 root         INFO     Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
10-22 22:19 myapp.area1  DEBUG    Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim.
10-22 22:19 myapp.area1  INFO     How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.
10-22 22:19 myapp.area2  WARNING  Jail zesty vixen who grabbed pay from quack.
10-22 22:19 myapp.area2  ERROR    The five boxing wizards jump quickly.</pre>
</div>
<p>As you can see, the DEBUG message only shows up in the file. The other messages
are sent to both destinations.</p>
<p>This example uses console and file handlers, but you can use any number and
combination of handlers you choose.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="adding-contextual-information-to-your-logging-output">
<span id="context-info"></span><h2>16.6.6. Adding contextual information to your logging output<a class="headerlink" href="#adding-contextual-information-to-your-logging-output" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Sometimes you want logging output to contain contextual information in
addition to the parameters passed to the logging call. For example, in a
networked application, it may be desirable to log client-specific information
in the log (e.g. remote client&#8217;s username, or IP address). Although you could
use the <em>extra</em> parameter to achieve this, it&#8217;s not always convenient to pass
the information in this way. While it might be tempting to create
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt> instances on a per-connection basis, this is not a good idea
because these instances are not garbage collected. While this is not a problem
in practice, when the number of <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt> instances is dependent on the
level of granularity you want to use in logging an application, it could
be hard to manage if the number of <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt> instances becomes
effectively unbounded.</p>
<p>An easy way in which you can pass contextual information to be output along
with logging event information is to use the <a title="logging.LoggerAdapter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LoggerAdapter</span></tt></a> class.
This class is designed to look like a <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt>, so that you can call
<a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.info" class="reference internal" href="#logging.info"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">info()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.warning" class="reference internal" href="#logging.warning"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">warning()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.error" class="reference internal" href="#logging.error"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">error()</span></tt></a>,
<a title="logging.exception" class="reference internal" href="#logging.exception"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">exception()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.critical" class="reference internal" href="#logging.critical"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">critical()</span></tt></a> and <a title="logging.log" class="reference internal" href="#logging.log"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">log()</span></tt></a>. These methods have the
same signatures as their counterparts in <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt>, so you can use the
two types of instances interchangeably.</p>
<p>When you create an instance of <a title="logging.LoggerAdapter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LoggerAdapter</span></tt></a>, you pass it a
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt> instance and a dict-like object which contains your contextual
information. When you call one of the logging methods on an instance of
<a title="logging.LoggerAdapter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LoggerAdapter</span></tt></a>, it delegates the call to the underlying instance of
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt> passed to its constructor, and arranges to pass the contextual
information in the delegated call. Here&#8217;s a snippet from the code of
<a title="logging.LoggerAdapter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LoggerAdapter</span></tt></a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">msg</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">*</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="sd">    Delegate a debug call to the underlying logger, after adding</span>
<span class="sd">    contextual information from this adapter instance.</span>
<span class="sd">    &quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
    <span class="n">msg</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">kwargs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">process</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">msg</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">msg</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">*</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">process()</span></tt> method of <a title="logging.LoggerAdapter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LoggerAdapter</span></tt></a> is where the contextual
information is added to the logging output. It&#8217;s passed the message and
keyword arguments of the logging call, and it passes back (potentially)
modified versions of these to use in the call to the underlying logger. The
default implementation of this method leaves the message alone, but inserts
an &#8220;extra&#8221; key in the keyword argument whose value is the dict-like object
passed to the constructor. Of course, if you had passed an &#8220;extra&#8221; keyword
argument in the call to the adapter, it will be silently overwritten.</p>
<p>The advantage of using &#8220;extra&#8221; is that the values in the dict-like object are
merged into the <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> instance&#8217;s __dict__, allowing you to use
customized strings with your <a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> instances which know about
the keys of the dict-like object. If you need a different method, e.g. if you
want to prepend or append the contextual information to the message string,
you just need to subclass <a title="logging.LoggerAdapter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LoggerAdapter</span></tt></a> and override <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">process()</span></tt>
to do what you need. Here&#8217;s an example script which uses this class, which
also illustrates what dict-like behaviour is needed from an arbitrary
&#8220;dict-like&#8221; object for use in the constructor:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">ConnInfo</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="sd">    An example class which shows how an arbitrary class can be used as</span>
<span class="sd">    the &#39;extra&#39; context information repository passed to a LoggerAdapter.</span>
<span class="sd">    &quot;&quot;&quot;</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">__getitem__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">name</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="sd">        To allow this instance to look like a dict.</span>
<span class="sd">        &quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
        <span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">choice</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">name</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s">&quot;ip&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">result</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">choice</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="s">&quot;127.0.0.1&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;192.168.0.1&quot;</span><span class="p">])</span>
        <span class="k">elif</span> <span class="n">name</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s">&quot;user&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">result</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">choice</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="s">&quot;jim&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;fred&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;sheila&quot;</span><span class="p">])</span>
        <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">result</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">__dict__</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;?&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">result</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">__iter__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="sd">        To allow iteration over keys, which will be merged into</span>
<span class="sd">        the LogRecord dict before formatting and output.</span>
<span class="sd">        &quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
        <span class="n">keys</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s">&quot;ip&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;user&quot;</span><span class="p">]</span>
        <span class="n">keys</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">extend</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">__dict__</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">())</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">keys</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">__iter__</span><span class="p">()</span>

<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">__name__</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s">&quot;__main__&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">random</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">choice</span>
    <span class="n">levels</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">INFO</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">WARNING</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ERROR</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">CRITICAL</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">a1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">LoggerAdapter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;a.b.c&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span>
                               <span class="p">{</span> <span class="s">&quot;ip&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;123.231.231.123&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;user&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;sheila&quot;</span> <span class="p">})</span>
    <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">basicConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">,</span>
                        <span class="n">format</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="si">%(asctime)-15s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(name)-5s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(levelname)-8s</span><span class="s"> IP: </span><span class="si">%(ip)-15s</span><span class="s"> User: </span><span class="si">%(user)-8s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">a1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;A debug message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">a1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;An info message with </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;some parameters&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">a2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">LoggerAdapter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;d.e.f&quot;</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">ConnInfo</span><span class="p">())</span>
    <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">10</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="n">lvl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">choice</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">levels</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">lvlname</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLevelName</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lvl</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">a2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">log</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">lvl</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;A message at </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s"> level with </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">lvlname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;parameters&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>When this script is run, the output should look something like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>2008-01-18 14:49:54,023 a.b.c DEBUG    IP: 123.231.231.123 User: sheila   A debug message
2008-01-18 14:49:54,023 a.b.c INFO     IP: 123.231.231.123 User: sheila   An info message with some parameters
2008-01-18 14:49:54,023 d.e.f CRITICAL IP: 192.168.0.1     User: jim      A message at CRITICAL level with 2 parameters
2008-01-18 14:49:54,033 d.e.f INFO     IP: 192.168.0.1     User: jim      A message at INFO level with 2 parameters
2008-01-18 14:49:54,033 d.e.f WARNING  IP: 192.168.0.1     User: sheila   A message at WARNING level with 2 parameters
2008-01-18 14:49:54,033 d.e.f ERROR    IP: 127.0.0.1       User: fred     A message at ERROR level with 2 parameters
2008-01-18 14:49:54,033 d.e.f ERROR    IP: 127.0.0.1       User: sheila   A message at ERROR level with 2 parameters
2008-01-18 14:49:54,033 d.e.f WARNING  IP: 192.168.0.1     User: sheila   A message at WARNING level with 2 parameters
2008-01-18 14:49:54,033 d.e.f WARNING  IP: 192.168.0.1     User: jim      A message at WARNING level with 2 parameters
2008-01-18 14:49:54,033 d.e.f INFO     IP: 192.168.0.1     User: fred     A message at INFO level with 2 parameters
2008-01-18 14:49:54,033 d.e.f WARNING  IP: 192.168.0.1     User: sheila   A message at WARNING level with 2 parameters
2008-01-18 14:49:54,033 d.e.f WARNING  IP: 127.0.0.1       User: jim      A message at WARNING level with 2 parameters</pre>
</div>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.6.</span></p>
<p>The <a title="logging.LoggerAdapter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LoggerAdapter</span></tt></a> class was not present in previous versions.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="sending-and-receiving-logging-events-across-a-network">
<span id="network-logging"></span><h2>16.6.7. Sending and receiving logging events across a network<a class="headerlink" href="#sending-and-receiving-logging-events-across-a-network" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Let&#8217;s say you want to send logging events across a network, and handle them at
the receiving end. A simple way of doing this is attaching a
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">SocketHandler</span></tt> instance to the root logger at the sending end:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="nn">logging.handlers</span>

<span class="n">rootLogger</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">rootLogger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">socketHandler</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">handlers</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SocketHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;localhost&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                    <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">handlers</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEFAULT_TCP_LOGGING_PORT</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># don&#39;t bother with a formatter, since a socket handler sends the event as</span>
<span class="c"># an unformatted pickle</span>
<span class="n">rootLogger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">addHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">socketHandler</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># Now, we can log to the root logger, or any other logger. First the root...</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># Now, define a couple of other loggers which might represent areas in your</span>
<span class="c"># application:</span>

<span class="n">logger1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;myapp.area1&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;myapp.area2&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">logger1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim.&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warning</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;Jail zesty vixen who grabbed pay from quack.&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">error</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&#39;The five boxing wizards jump quickly.&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>At the receiving end, you can set up a receiver using the <a title="A framework for network servers." class="reference external" href="socketserver.html#module-SocketServer"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">SocketServer</span></tt></a>
module. Here is a basic working example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">cPickle</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging.handlers</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">SocketServer</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">struct</span>


<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">LogRecordStreamHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">SocketServer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">StreamRequestHandler</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;Handler for a streaming logging request.</span>

<span class="sd">    This basically logs the record using whatever logging policy is</span>
<span class="sd">    configured locally.</span>
<span class="sd">    &quot;&quot;&quot;</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">handle</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="sd">        Handle multiple requests - each expected to be a 4-byte length,</span>
<span class="sd">        followed by the LogRecord in pickle format. Logs the record</span>
<span class="sd">        according to whatever policy is configured locally.</span>
<span class="sd">        &quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
        <span class="k">while</span> <span class="mf">1</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">chunk</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">connection</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">recv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">4</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">chunk</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="mf">4</span><span class="p">:</span>
                <span class="k">break</span>
            <span class="n">slen</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">struct</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">unpack</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;&gt;L&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">chunk</span><span class="p">)[</span><span class="mf">0</span><span class="p">]</span>
            <span class="n">chunk</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">connection</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">recv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slen</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="k">while</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">chunk</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">slen</span><span class="p">:</span>
                <span class="n">chunk</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">chunk</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">connection</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">recv</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slen</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">chunk</span><span class="p">))</span>
            <span class="n">obj</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">unPickle</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">chunk</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="n">record</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">makeLogRecord</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">obj</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">handleLogRecord</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">record</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">unPickle</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">data</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">cPickle</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">loads</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">handleLogRecord</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">record</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="c"># if a name is specified, we use the named logger rather than the one</span>
        <span class="c"># implied by the record.</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">server</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">logname</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">server</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">logname</span>
        <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">record</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">name</span>
        <span class="n">logger</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">name</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="c"># N.B. EVERY record gets logged. This is because Logger.handle</span>
        <span class="c"># is normally called AFTER logger-level filtering. If you want</span>
        <span class="c"># to do filtering, do it at the client end to save wasting</span>
        <span class="c"># cycles and network bandwidth!</span>
        <span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">handle</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">record</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">LogRecordSocketReceiver</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">SocketServer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ThreadingTCPServer</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;simple TCP socket-based logging receiver suitable for testing.</span>
<span class="sd">    &quot;&quot;&quot;</span>

    <span class="n">allow_reuse_address</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">host</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&#39;localhost&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
                 <span class="n">port</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">handlers</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEFAULT_TCP_LOGGING_PORT</span><span class="p">,</span>
                 <span class="n">handler</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">LogRecordStreamHandler</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="n">SocketServer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ThreadingTCPServer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">host</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">port</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="n">handler</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">abort</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timeout</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">logname</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">None</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">serve_until_stopped</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">select</span>
        <span class="n">abort</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0</span>
        <span class="k">while</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">abort</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">rd</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">wr</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ex</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">select</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">select</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">socket</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fileno</span><span class="p">()],</span>
                                       <span class="p">[],</span> <span class="p">[],</span>
                                       <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timeout</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">rd</span><span class="p">:</span>
                <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">handle_request</span><span class="p">()</span>
            <span class="n">abort</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">abort</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">main</span><span class="p">():</span>
    <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">basicConfig</span><span class="p">(</span>
        <span class="n">format</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="si">%(relativeCreated)5d</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(name)-15s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(levelname)-8s</span><span class="s"> </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">tcpserver</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">LogRecordSocketReceiver</span><span class="p">()</span>
    <span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">&quot;About to start TCP server...&quot;</span>
    <span class="n">tcpserver</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">serve_until_stopped</span><span class="p">()</span>

<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">__name__</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s">&quot;__main__&quot;</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="n">main</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>First run the server, and then the client. On the client side, nothing is
printed on the console; on the server side, you should see something like:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>About to start TCP server...
   59 root            INFO     Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
   59 myapp.area1     DEBUG    Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim.
   69 myapp.area1     INFO     How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.
   69 myapp.area2     WARNING  Jail zesty vixen who grabbed pay from quack.
   69 myapp.area2     ERROR    The five boxing wizards jump quickly.</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="handler-objects">
<h2>16.6.8. Handler Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#handler-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Handlers have the following attributes and methods. Note that <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt>
is never instantiated directly; this class acts as a base for more useful
subclasses. However, the <a title="object.__init__" class="reference external" href="../reference/datamodel.html#object.__init__"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">__init__()</span></tt></a> method in subclasses needs to call
<a title="logging.Handler.__init__" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Handler.__init__"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler.__init__()</span></tt></a>.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.__init__">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">__init__</tt><big>(</big><em>level=NOTSET</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.__init__" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Initializes the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt> instance by setting its level, setting the list
of filters to the empty list and creating a lock (using <a title="logging.Handler.createLock" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Handler.createLock"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">createLock()</span></tt></a>) for
serializing access to an I/O mechanism.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.createLock">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">createLock</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.createLock" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Initializes a thread lock which can be used to serialize access to underlying
I/O functionality which may not be threadsafe.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.acquire">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">acquire</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.acquire" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Acquires the thread lock created with <a title="logging.Handler.createLock" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Handler.createLock"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">createLock()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.release">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">release</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.release" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Releases the thread lock acquired with <a title="logging.Handler.acquire" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Handler.acquire"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">acquire()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.setLevel">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">setLevel</tt><big>(</big><em>lvl</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.setLevel" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Sets the threshold for this handler to <em>lvl</em>. Logging messages which are less
severe than <em>lvl</em> will be ignored. When a handler is created, the level is set
to <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">NOTSET</span></tt> (which causes all messages to be processed).</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.setFormatter">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">setFormatter</tt><big>(</big><em>form</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.setFormatter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Sets the <a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> for this handler to <em>form</em>.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.addFilter">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">addFilter</tt><big>(</big><em>filt</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.addFilter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Adds the specified filter <em>filt</em> to this handler.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.removeFilter">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">removeFilter</tt><big>(</big><em>filt</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.removeFilter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Removes the specified filter <em>filt</em> from this handler.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.filter">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">filter</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.filter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Applies this handler&#8217;s filters to the record and returns a true value if the
record is to be processed.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.flush">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">flush</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.flush" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Ensure all logging output has been flushed. This version does nothing and is
intended to be implemented by subclasses.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.close">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">close</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.close" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Tidy up any resources used by the handler. This version does no output but
removes the handler from an internal list of handlers which is closed when
<a title="logging.shutdown" class="reference internal" href="#logging.shutdown"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">shutdown()</span></tt></a> is called. Subclasses should ensure that this gets called
from overridden <a title="logging.Handler.close" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Handler.close"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">close()</span></tt></a> methods.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.handle">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">handle</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.handle" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Conditionally emits the specified logging record, depending on filters which may
have been added to the handler. Wraps the actual emission of the record with
acquisition/release of the I/O thread lock.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.handleError">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">handleError</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.handleError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>This method should be called from handlers when an exception is encountered
during an <a title="logging.Handler.emit" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Handler.emit"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">emit()</span></tt></a> call. By default it does nothing, which means that
exceptions get silently ignored. This is what is mostly wanted for a logging
system - most users will not care about errors in the logging system, they are
more interested in application errors. You could, however, replace this with a
custom handler if you wish. The specified record is the one which was being
processed when the exception occurred.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.format">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">format</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.format" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Do formatting for a record - if a formatter is set, use it. Otherwise, use the
default formatter for the module.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Handler.emit">
<tt class="descclassname">Handler.</tt><tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Handler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Do whatever it takes to actually log the specified logging record. This version
is intended to be implemented by subclasses and so raises a
<a title="exceptions.NotImplementedError" class="reference external" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.NotImplementedError"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">NotImplementedError</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

<div class="section" id="module-logging.handlers">
<h3>16.6.8.1. StreamHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#module-logging.handlers" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.StreamHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.StreamHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">StreamHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the core <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt> package,
sends logging output to streams such as <em>sys.stdout</em>, <em>sys.stderr</em> or any
file-like object (or, more precisely, any object which supports <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">write()</span></tt>
and <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">flush()</span></tt> methods).</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.StreamHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">StreamHandler</tt><big>(</big><span class="optional">[</span><em>strm</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.StreamHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.StreamHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.StreamHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">StreamHandler</span></tt></a> class. If <em>strm</em> is
specified, the instance will use it for logging output; otherwise, <em>sys.stderr</em>
will be used.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.StreamHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.StreamHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>If a formatter is specified, it is used to format the record. The record
is then written to the stream with a trailing newline. If exception
information is present, it is formatted using
<a title="traceback.print_exception" class="reference external" href="traceback.html#traceback.print_exception"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">traceback.print_exception()</span></tt></a> and appended to the stream.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.StreamHandler.flush">
<tt class="descname">flush</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.StreamHandler.flush" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Flushes the stream by calling its <a title="logging.handlers.StreamHandler.flush" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.StreamHandler.flush"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">flush()</span></tt></a> method. Note that the
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">close()</span></tt> method is inherited from <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt> and so does
no output, so an explicit <a title="logging.handlers.StreamHandler.flush" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.StreamHandler.flush"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">flush()</span></tt></a> call may be needed at times.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="filehandler">
<h3>16.6.8.2. FileHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#filehandler" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.FileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.FileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">FileHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the core <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt> package,
sends logging output to a disk file.  It inherits the output functionality from
<a title="logging.handlers.StreamHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.StreamHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">StreamHandler</span></tt></a>.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.FileHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">FileHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>filename</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>mode</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>encoding</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>delay</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.FileHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.FileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.FileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">FileHandler</span></tt></a> class. The specified file is
opened and used as the stream for logging. If <em>mode</em> is not specified,
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">'a'</span></tt> is used.  If <em>encoding</em> is not <em>None</em>, it is used to open the file
with that encoding.  If <em>delay</em> is true, then file opening is deferred until the
first call to <a title="logging.handlers.FileHandler.emit" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.FileHandler.emit"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">emit()</span></tt></a>. By default, the file grows indefinitely.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.FileHandler.close">
<tt class="descname">close</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.FileHandler.close" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Closes the file.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.FileHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.FileHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Outputs the record to the file.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

<p>See <a class="reference internal" href="#library-config"><em>Configuring Logging for a Library</em></a> for more information on how to use
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">NullHandler</span></tt>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="watchedfilehandler">
<h3>16.6.8.3. WatchedFileHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#watchedfilehandler" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.6.</span></p>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">WatchedFileHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt>
module, is a <a title="logging.handlers.FileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.FileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">FileHandler</span></tt></a> which watches the file it is logging to. If
the file changes, it is closed and reopened using the file name.</p>
<p>A file change can happen because of usage of programs such as <em>newsyslog</em> and
<em>logrotate</em> which perform log file rotation. This handler, intended for use
under Unix/Linux, watches the file to see if it has changed since the last emit.
(A file is deemed to have changed if its device or inode have changed.) If the
file has changed, the old file stream is closed, and the file opened to get a
new stream.</p>
<p>This handler is not appropriate for use under Windows, because under Windows
open log files cannot be moved or renamed - logging opens the files with
exclusive locks - and so there is no need for such a handler. Furthermore,
<em>ST_INO</em> is not supported under Windows; <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">stat()</span></tt> always returns zero for
this value.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">WatchedFileHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>filename</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>mode</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>encoding</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>delay</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">WatchedFileHandler</span></tt></a> class. The specified
file is opened and used as the stream for logging. If <em>mode</em> is not specified,
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">'a'</span></tt> is used.  If <em>encoding</em> is not <em>None</em>, it is used to open the file
with that encoding.  If <em>delay</em> is true, then file opening is deferred until the
first call to <a title="logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler.emit" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler.emit"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">emit()</span></tt></a>.  By default, the file grows indefinitely.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.WatchedFileHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Outputs the record to the file, but first checks to see if the file has
changed.  If it has, the existing stream is flushed and closed and the
file opened again, before outputting the record to the file.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="rotatingfilehandler">
<h3>16.6.8.4. RotatingFileHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#rotatingfilehandler" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">RotatingFileHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt>
module, supports rotation of disk log files.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">RotatingFileHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>filename</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>mode</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>maxBytes</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>backupCount</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>encoding</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>delay</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">RotatingFileHandler</span></tt></a> class. The specified
file is opened and used as the stream for logging. If <em>mode</em> is not specified,
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'a'</span></tt> is used.  If <em>encoding</em> is not <em>None</em>, it is used to open the file
with that encoding.  If <em>delay</em> is true, then file opening is deferred until the
first call to <a title="logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler.emit" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler.emit"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">emit()</span></tt></a>.  By default, the file grows indefinitely.</p>
<p>You can use the <em>maxBytes</em> and <em>backupCount</em> values to allow the file to
<em>rollover</em> at a predetermined size. When the size is about to be exceeded,
the file is closed and a new file is silently opened for output. Rollover occurs
whenever the current log file is nearly <em>maxBytes</em> in length; if <em>maxBytes</em> is
zero, rollover never occurs.  If <em>backupCount</em> is non-zero, the system will save
old log files by appending the extensions &#8220;.1&#8221;, &#8220;.2&#8221; etc., to the filename. For
example, with a <em>backupCount</em> of 5 and a base file name of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">app.log</span></tt>, you
would get <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">app.log</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">app.log.1</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">app.log.2</span></tt>, up to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">app.log.5</span></tt>. The file being written to is always <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">app.log</span></tt>.  When
this file is filled, it is closed and renamed to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">app.log.1</span></tt>, and if files
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">app.log.1</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">app.log.2</span></tt>, etc.  exist, then they are renamed to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">app.log.2</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">app.log.3</span></tt> etc.  respectively.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler.doRollover">
<tt class="descname">doRollover</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler.doRollover" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Does a rollover, as described above.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Outputs the record to the file, catering for rollover as described
previously.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="timedrotatingfilehandler">
<h3>16.6.8.5. TimedRotatingFileHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#timedrotatingfilehandler" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">TimedRotatingFileHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt> module, supports rotation of disk log files at certain
timed intervals.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">TimedRotatingFileHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>filename</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>when</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>interval</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>backupCount</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>encoding</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>delay</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>utc</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">TimedRotatingFileHandler</span></tt></a> class. The
specified file is opened and used as the stream for logging. On rotating it also
sets the filename suffix. Rotating happens based on the product of <em>when</em> and
<em>interval</em>.</p>
<p>You can use the <em>when</em> to specify the type of <em>interval</em>. The list of possible
values is below.  Note that they are not case sensitive.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="41%" />
<col width="59%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Value</th>
<th class="head">Type of interval</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'S'</span></tt></td>
<td>Seconds</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'M'</span></tt></td>
<td>Minutes</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'H'</span></tt></td>
<td>Hours</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'D'</span></tt></td>
<td>Days</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'W'</span></tt></td>
<td>Week day (0=Monday)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'midnight'</span></tt></td>
<td>Roll over at midnight</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The system will save old log files by appending extensions to the filename.
The extensions are date-and-time based, using the strftime format
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S</span></tt> or a leading portion thereof, depending on the
rollover interval.
If the <em>utc</em> argument is true, times in UTC will be used; otherwise
local time is used.</p>
<p>If <em>backupCount</em> is nonzero, at most <em>backupCount</em> files
will be kept, and if more would be created when rollover occurs, the oldest
one is deleted. The deletion logic uses the interval to determine which
files to delete, so changing the interval may leave old files lying around.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler.doRollover">
<tt class="descname">doRollover</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler.doRollover" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Does a rollover, as described above.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Outputs the record to the file, catering for rollover as described above.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="sockethandler">
<h3>16.6.8.6. SocketHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#sockethandler" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.SocketHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">SocketHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt> module,
sends logging output to a network socket. The base class uses a TCP socket.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SocketHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">SocketHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>host</em>, <em>port</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.SocketHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">SocketHandler</span></tt></a> class intended to
communicate with a remote machine whose address is given by <em>host</em> and <em>port</em>.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SocketHandler.close">
<tt class="descname">close</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler.close" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Closes the socket.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SocketHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Pickles the record&#8217;s attribute dictionary and writes it to the socket in
binary format. If there is an error with the socket, silently drops the
packet. If the connection was previously lost, re-establishes the
connection. To unpickle the record at the receiving end into a
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt>, use the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">makeLogRecord()</span></tt> function.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SocketHandler.handleError">
<tt class="descname">handleError</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler.handleError" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Handles an error which has occurred during <a title="logging.handlers.SocketHandler.emit" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler.emit"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">emit()</span></tt></a>. The most likely
cause is a lost connection. Closes the socket so that we can retry on the
next event.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SocketHandler.makeSocket">
<tt class="descname">makeSocket</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler.makeSocket" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>This is a factory method which allows subclasses to define the precise
type of socket they want. The default implementation creates a TCP socket
(<a title="socket.SOCK_STREAM" class="reference external" href="socket.html#socket.SOCK_STREAM"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">socket.SOCK_STREAM</span></tt></a>).</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SocketHandler.makePickle">
<tt class="descname">makePickle</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler.makePickle" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Pickles the record&#8217;s attribute dictionary in binary format with a length
prefix, and returns it ready for transmission across the socket.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SocketHandler.send">
<tt class="descname">send</tt><big>(</big><em>packet</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler.send" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Send a pickled string <em>packet</em> to the socket. This function allows for
partial sends which can happen when the network is busy.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="datagramhandler">
<h3>16.6.8.7. DatagramHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#datagramhandler" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.DatagramHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.DatagramHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">DatagramHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt>
module, inherits from <a title="logging.handlers.SocketHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">SocketHandler</span></tt></a> to support sending logging messages
over UDP sockets.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.DatagramHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">DatagramHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>host</em>, <em>port</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.DatagramHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.DatagramHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.DatagramHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">DatagramHandler</span></tt></a> class intended to
communicate with a remote machine whose address is given by <em>host</em> and <em>port</em>.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.DatagramHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.DatagramHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Pickles the record&#8217;s attribute dictionary and writes it to the socket in
binary format. If there is an error with the socket, silently drops the
packet. To unpickle the record at the receiving end into a
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt>, use the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">makeLogRecord()</span></tt> function.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.DatagramHandler.makeSocket">
<tt class="descname">makeSocket</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.DatagramHandler.makeSocket" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>The factory method of <a title="logging.handlers.SocketHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SocketHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">SocketHandler</span></tt></a> is here overridden to create
a UDP socket (<a title="socket.SOCK_DGRAM" class="reference external" href="socket.html#socket.SOCK_DGRAM"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">socket.SOCK_DGRAM</span></tt></a>).</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.DatagramHandler.send">
<tt class="descname">send</tt><big>(</big><em>s</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.DatagramHandler.send" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Send a pickled string to a socket.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="sysloghandler">
<h3>16.6.8.8. SysLogHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#sysloghandler" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.SysLogHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SysLogHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">SysLogHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt> module,
supports sending logging messages to a remote or local Unix syslog.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SysLogHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">SysLogHandler</tt><big>(</big><span class="optional">[</span><em>address</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>facility</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SysLogHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.SysLogHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SysLogHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">SysLogHandler</span></tt></a> class intended to
communicate with a remote Unix machine whose address is given by <em>address</em> in
the form of a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">(host,</span> <span class="pre">port)</span></tt> tuple.  If <em>address</em> is not specified,
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">('localhost',</span> <span class="pre">514)</span></tt> is used.  The address is used to open a UDP socket.  An
alternative to providing a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">(host,</span> <span class="pre">port)</span></tt> tuple is providing an address as a
string, for example &#8220;/dev/log&#8221;. In this case, a Unix domain socket is used to
send the message to the syslog. If <em>facility</em> is not specified,
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LOG_USER</span></tt> is used.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.close">
<tt class="descname">close</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.close" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Closes the socket to the remote host.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>The record is formatted, and then sent to the syslog server. If exception
information is present, it is <em>not</em> sent to the server.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.encodePriority">
<tt class="descname">encodePriority</tt><big>(</big><em>facility</em>, <em>priority</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.encodePriority" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Encodes the facility and priority into an integer. You can pass in strings
or integers - if strings are passed, internal mapping dictionaries are
used to convert them to integers.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="nteventloghandler">
<h3>16.6.8.9. NTEventLogHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#nteventloghandler" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">NTEventLogHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt>
module, supports sending logging messages to a local Windows NT, Windows 2000 or
Windows XP event log. Before you can use it, you need Mark Hammond&#8217;s Win32
extensions for Python installed.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">NTEventLogHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>appname</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>dllname</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>logtype</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">NTEventLogHandler</span></tt></a> class. The <em>appname</em> is
used to define the application name as it appears in the event log. An
appropriate registry entry is created using this name. The <em>dllname</em> should give
the fully qualified pathname of a .dll or .exe which contains message
definitions to hold in the log (if not specified, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'win32service.pyd'</span></tt> is used
- this is installed with the Win32 extensions and contains some basic
placeholder message definitions. Note that use of these placeholders will make
your event logs big, as the entire message source is held in the log. If you
want slimmer logs, you have to pass in the name of your own .dll or .exe which
contains the message definitions you want to use in the event log). The
<em>logtype</em> is one of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'Application'</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'System'</span></tt> or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'Security'</span></tt>, and
defaults to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'Application'</span></tt>.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler.close">
<tt class="descname">close</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler.close" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>At this point, you can remove the application name from the registry as a
source of event log entries. However, if you do this, you will not be able
to see the events as you intended in the Event Log Viewer - it needs to be
able to access the registry to get the .dll name. The current version does
not do this.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Determines the message ID, event category and event type, and then logs
the message in the NT event log.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler.getEventCategory">
<tt class="descname">getEventCategory</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler.getEventCategory" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Returns the event category for the record. Override this if you want to
specify your own categories. This version returns 0.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler.getEventType">
<tt class="descname">getEventType</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler.getEventType" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Returns the event type for the record. Override this if you want to
specify your own types. This version does a mapping using the handler&#8217;s
typemap attribute, which is set up in <a title="object.__init__" class="reference external" href="../reference/datamodel.html#object.__init__"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">__init__()</span></tt></a> to a dictionary
which contains mappings for <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">DEBUG</span></tt>, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">INFO</span></tt>,
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">WARNING</span></tt>, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt> and <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">CRITICAL</span></tt>. If you are using
your own levels, you will either need to override this method or place a
suitable dictionary in the handler&#8217;s <em>typemap</em> attribute.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler.getMessageID">
<tt class="descname">getMessageID</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.NTEventLogHandler.getMessageID" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Returns the message ID for the record. If you are using your own messages,
you could do this by having the <em>msg</em> passed to the logger being an ID
rather than a format string. Then, in here, you could use a dictionary
lookup to get the message ID. This version returns 1, which is the base
message ID in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">win32service.pyd</span></tt>.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="smtphandler">
<h3>16.6.8.10. SMTPHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#smtphandler" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.SMTPHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SMTPHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">SMTPHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt> module,
supports sending logging messages to an email address via SMTP.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SMTPHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">SMTPHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>mailhost</em>, <em>fromaddr</em>, <em>toaddrs</em>, <em>subject</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>credentials</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SMTPHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.SMTPHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.SMTPHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">SMTPHandler</span></tt></a> class. The instance is
initialized with the from and to addresses and subject line of the email. The
<em>toaddrs</em> should be a list of strings. To specify a non-standard SMTP port, use
the (host, port) tuple format for the <em>mailhost</em> argument. If you use a string,
the standard SMTP port is used. If your SMTP server requires authentication, you
can specify a (username, password) tuple for the <em>credentials</em> argument.</p>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.6: </span><em>credentials</em> was added.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SMTPHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SMTPHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Formats the record and sends it to the specified addressees.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.SMTPHandler.getSubject">
<tt class="descname">getSubject</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.SMTPHandler.getSubject" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>If you want to specify a subject line which is record-dependent, override
this method.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="memoryhandler">
<h3>16.6.8.11. MemoryHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#memoryhandler" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">MemoryHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt> module,
supports buffering of logging records in memory, periodically flushing them to a
<em>target</em> handler. Flushing occurs whenever the buffer is full, or when an
event of a certain severity or greater is seen.</p>
<p><a title="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">MemoryHandler</span></tt></a> is a subclass of the more general
<a title="logging.handlers.BufferingHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.BufferingHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">BufferingHandler</span></tt></a>, which is an abstract class. This buffers logging
records in memory. Whenever each record is added to the buffer, a check is made
by calling <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">shouldFlush()</span></tt> to see if the buffer should be flushed.  If it
should, then <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">flush()</span></tt> is expected to do the needful.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.BufferingHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">BufferingHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>capacity</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.BufferingHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Initializes the handler with a buffer of the specified capacity.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.BufferingHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.BufferingHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Appends the record to the buffer. If <a title="logging.handlers.BufferingHandler.shouldFlush" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.BufferingHandler.shouldFlush"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">shouldFlush()</span></tt></a> returns true,
calls <a title="logging.handlers.BufferingHandler.flush" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.BufferingHandler.flush"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">flush()</span></tt></a> to process the buffer.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.BufferingHandler.flush">
<tt class="descname">flush</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.BufferingHandler.flush" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>You can override this to implement custom flushing behavior. This version
just zaps the buffer to empty.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.BufferingHandler.shouldFlush">
<tt class="descname">shouldFlush</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.BufferingHandler.shouldFlush" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Returns true if the buffer is up to capacity. This method can be
overridden to implement custom flushing strategies.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">MemoryHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>capacity</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>flushLevel</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>target</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">MemoryHandler</span></tt></a> class. The instance is
initialized with a buffer size of <em>capacity</em>. If <em>flushLevel</em> is not specified,
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt> is used. If no <em>target</em> is specified, the target will need to be
set using <a title="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.setTarget" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.setTarget"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">setTarget()</span></tt></a> before this handler does anything useful.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.close">
<tt class="descname">close</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.close" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Calls <a title="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.flush" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.flush"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">flush()</span></tt></a>, sets the target to <a title="None" class="reference external" href="constants.html#None"><tt class="xref xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></tt></a> and clears the
buffer.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.flush">
<tt class="descname">flush</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.flush" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>For a <a title="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">MemoryHandler</span></tt></a>, flushing means just sending the buffered
records to the target, if there is one. Override if you want different
behavior.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.setTarget">
<tt class="descname">setTarget</tt><big>(</big><em>target</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.setTarget" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Sets the target handler for this handler.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.shouldFlush">
<tt class="descname">shouldFlush</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.MemoryHandler.shouldFlush" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Checks for buffer full or a record at the <em>flushLevel</em> or higher.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="httphandler">
<h3>16.6.8.12. HTTPHandler<a class="headerlink" href="#httphandler" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a title="logging.handlers.HTTPHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.HTTPHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">HTTPHandler</span></tt></a> class, located in the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt> module,
supports sending logging messages to a Web server, using either <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></tt> or
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">POST</span></tt> semantics.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.handlers.HTTPHandler">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.handlers.</tt><tt class="descname">HTTPHandler</tt><big>(</big><em>host</em>, <em>url</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>method</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.HTTPHandler" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.handlers.HTTPHandler" class="reference internal" href="#logging.handlers.HTTPHandler"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">HTTPHandler</span></tt></a> class. The instance is
initialized with a host address, url and HTTP method. The <em>host</em> can be of the
form <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">host:port</span></tt>, should you need to use a specific port number. If no
<em>method</em> is specified, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></tt> is used.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.handlers.HTTPHandler.emit">
<tt class="descname">emit</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.handlers.HTTPHandler.emit" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Sends the record to the Web server as an URL-encoded dictionary.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="formatter-objects">
<span id="id1"></span><h2>16.6.9. Formatter Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#formatter-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p><a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a>s have the following attributes and methods. They are
responsible for converting a <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> to (usually) a string which can
be interpreted by either a human or an external system. The base
<a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> allows a formatting string to be specified. If none is
supplied, the default value of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'%(message)s'</span></tt> is used.</p>
<p>A Formatter can be initialized with a format string which makes use of knowledge
of the <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> attributes - such as the default value mentioned above
making use of the fact that the user&#8217;s message and arguments are pre-formatted
into a <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a>&#8216;s <em>message</em> attribute.  This format string contains
standard python %-style mapping keys. See section <a class="reference external" href="stdtypes.html#string-formatting"><em>String Formatting Operations</em></a>
for more information on string formatting.</p>
<p>Currently, the useful mapping keys in a <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> are:</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="35%" />
<col width="65%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Format</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(name)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Name of the logger (logging channel).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(levelno)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Numeric logging level for the message
(<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">DEBUG</span></tt>, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">INFO</span></tt>,
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">WARNING</span></tt>, <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">ERROR</span></tt>,
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">CRITICAL</span></tt>).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(levelname)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Text logging level for the message
(<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'DEBUG'</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'INFO'</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'WARNING'</span></tt>,
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'ERROR'</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'CRITICAL'</span></tt>).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(pathname)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Full pathname of the source file where the
logging call was issued (if available).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(filename)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Filename portion of pathname.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(module)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Module (name portion of filename).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(funcName)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Name of function containing the logging call.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(lineno)d</span></tt></td>
<td>Source line number where the logging call was
issued (if available).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(created)f</span></tt></td>
<td>Time when the <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> was created
(as returned by <a title="time.time" class="reference external" href="time.html#time.time"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">time.time()</span></tt></a>).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(relativeCreated)d</span></tt></td>
<td>Time in milliseconds when the LogRecord was
created, relative to the time the logging
module was loaded.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(asctime)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Human-readable time when the
<a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> was created.  By default
this is of the form &#8220;2003-07-08 16:49:45,896&#8221;
(the numbers after the comma are millisecond
portion of the time).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(msecs)d</span></tt></td>
<td>Millisecond portion of the time when the
<a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> was created.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(thread)d</span></tt></td>
<td>Thread ID (if available).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(threadName)s</span></tt></td>
<td>Thread name (if available).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(process)d</span></tt></td>
<td>Process ID (if available).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">%(message)s</span></tt></td>
<td>The logged message, computed as <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">msg</span> <span class="pre">%</span>
<span class="pre">args</span></tt>.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.5: </span><em>funcName</em> was added.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.Formatter">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">Formatter</tt><big>(</big><span class="optional">[</span><em>fmt</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>datefmt</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Formatter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a new instance of the <a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> class. The instance is
initialized with a format string for the message as a whole, as well as a format
string for the date/time portion of a message. If no <em>fmt</em> is specified,
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'%(message)s'</span></tt> is used. If no <em>datefmt</em> is specified, the ISO8601 date format
is used.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Formatter.format">
<tt class="descname">format</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Formatter.format" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>The record&#8217;s attribute dictionary is used as the operand to a string
formatting operation. Returns the resulting string. Before formatting the
dictionary, a couple of preparatory steps are carried out. The <em>message</em>
attribute of the record is computed using <em>msg</em> % <em>args</em>. If the
formatting string contains <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">'(asctime)'</span></tt>, <a title="logging.Formatter.formatTime" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter.formatTime"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">formatTime()</span></tt></a> is called
to format the event time. If there is exception information, it is
formatted using <a title="logging.Formatter.formatException" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter.formatException"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">formatException()</span></tt></a> and appended to the message. Note
that the formatted exception information is cached in attribute
<em>exc_text</em>. This is useful because the exception information can be
pickled and sent across the wire, but you should be careful if you have
more than one <a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> subclass which customizes the formatting
of exception information. In this case, you will have to clear the cached
value after a formatter has done its formatting, so that the next
formatter to handle the event doesn&#8217;t use the cached value but
recalculates it afresh.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Formatter.formatTime">
<tt class="descname">formatTime</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>datefmt</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Formatter.formatTime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>This method should be called from <a title="format" class="reference external" href="functions.html#format"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">format()</span></tt></a> by a formatter which
wants to make use of a formatted time. This method can be overridden in
formatters to provide for any specific requirement, but the basic behavior
is as follows: if <em>datefmt</em> (a string) is specified, it is used with
<a title="time.strftime" class="reference external" href="time.html#time.strftime"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">time.strftime()</span></tt></a> to format the creation time of the
record. Otherwise, the ISO8601 format is used.  The resulting string is
returned.</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Formatter.formatException">
<tt class="descname">formatException</tt><big>(</big><em>exc_info</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Formatter.formatException" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Formats the specified exception information (a standard exception tuple as
returned by <a title="sys.exc_info" class="reference external" href="sys.html#sys.exc_info"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">sys.exc_info()</span></tt></a>) as a string. This default implementation
just uses <a title="traceback.print_exception" class="reference external" href="traceback.html#traceback.print_exception"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">traceback.print_exception()</span></tt></a>. The resulting string is
returned.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="filter-objects">
<h2>16.6.10. Filter Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#filter-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p><a title="logging.Filter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Filter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Filter</span></tt></a>s can be used by <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Handler</span></tt>s and <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt>s for
more sophisticated filtering than is provided by levels. The base filter class
only allows events which are below a certain point in the logger hierarchy. For
example, a filter initialized with &#8220;A.B&#8221; will allow events logged by loggers
&#8220;A.B&#8221;, &#8220;A.B.C&#8221;, &#8220;A.B.C.D&#8221;, &#8220;A.B.D&#8221; etc. but not &#8220;A.BB&#8221;, &#8220;B.A.B&#8221; etc. If
initialized with the empty string, all events are passed.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.Filter">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">Filter</tt><big>(</big><span class="optional">[</span><em>name</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Filter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns an instance of the <a title="logging.Filter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Filter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Filter</span></tt></a> class. If <em>name</em> is specified, it
names a logger which, together with its children, will have its events allowed
through the filter. If no name is specified, allows every event.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.Filter.filter">
<tt class="descname">filter</tt><big>(</big><em>record</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.Filter.filter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Is the specified record to be logged? Returns zero for no, nonzero for
yes. If deemed appropriate, the record may be modified in-place by this
method.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="logrecord-objects">
<h2>16.6.11. LogRecord Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#logrecord-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p><a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> instances are created every time something is logged. They
contain all the information pertinent to the event being logged. The main
information passed in is in msg and args, which are combined using msg % args to
create the message field of the record. The record also includes information
such as when the record was created, the source line where the logging call was
made, and any exception information to be logged.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.LogRecord">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">LogRecord</tt><big>(</big><em>name</em>, <em>lvl</em>, <em>pathname</em>, <em>lineno</em>, <em>msg</em>, <em>args</em>, <em>exc_info</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>func</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.LogRecord" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns an instance of <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> initialized with interesting
information. The <em>name</em> is the logger name; <em>lvl</em> is the numeric level;
<em>pathname</em> is the absolute pathname of the source file in which the logging
call was made; <em>lineno</em> is the line number in that file where the logging
call is found; <em>msg</em> is the user-supplied message (a format string); <em>args</em>
is the tuple which, together with <em>msg</em>, makes up the user message; and
<em>exc_info</em> is the exception tuple obtained by calling <a title="sys.exc_info" class="reference external" href="sys.html#sys.exc_info"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">sys.exc_info()</span></tt></a>
(or <a title="None" class="reference external" href="constants.html#None"><tt class="xref xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></tt></a>, if no exception information is available). The <em>func</em> is
the name of the function from which the logging call was made. If not
specified, it defaults to <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">None</span></tt>.</p>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.5: </span><em>func</em> was added.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.LogRecord.getMessage">
<tt class="descname">getMessage</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.LogRecord.getMessage" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Returns the message for this <a title="logging.LogRecord" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LogRecord"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LogRecord</span></tt></a> instance after merging any
user-supplied arguments with the message.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="loggeradapter-objects">
<h2>16.6.12. LoggerAdapter Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#loggeradapter-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">New in version 2.6.</span></p>
<p><a title="logging.LoggerAdapter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LoggerAdapter</span></tt></a> instances are used to conveniently pass contextual
information into logging calls. For a usage example , see the section on
<a class="reference internal" href="#context-info">adding contextual information to your logging output</a>.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="logging.LoggerAdapter">
<em class="property">
class </em><tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">LoggerAdapter</tt><big>(</big><em>logger</em>, <em>extra</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns an instance of <a title="logging.LoggerAdapter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LoggerAdapter</span></tt></a> initialized with an
underlying <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt> instance and a dict-like object.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="logging.LoggerAdapter.process">
<tt class="descname">process</tt><big>(</big><em>msg</em>, <em>kwargs</em><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter.process" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Modifies the message and/or keyword arguments passed to a logging call in
order to insert contextual information. This implementation takes the object
passed as <em>extra</em> to the constructor and adds it to <em>kwargs</em> using key
&#8216;extra&#8217;. The return value is a (<em>msg</em>, <em>kwargs</em>) tuple which has the
(possibly modified) versions of the arguments passed in.</dd></dl>

</dd></dl>

<p>In addition to the above, <a title="logging.LoggerAdapter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.LoggerAdapter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">LoggerAdapter</span></tt></a> supports all the logging
methods of <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt>, i.e. <a title="logging.debug" class="reference internal" href="#logging.debug"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.info" class="reference internal" href="#logging.info"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">info()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.warning" class="reference internal" href="#logging.warning"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">warning()</span></tt></a>,
<a title="logging.error" class="reference internal" href="#logging.error"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">error()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.exception" class="reference internal" href="#logging.exception"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">exception()</span></tt></a>, <a title="logging.critical" class="reference internal" href="#logging.critical"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">critical()</span></tt></a> and <a title="logging.log" class="reference internal" href="#logging.log"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">log()</span></tt></a>. These
methods have the same signatures as their counterparts in <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Logger</span></tt>, so
you can use the two types of instances interchangeably.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="thread-safety">
<h2>16.6.13. Thread Safety<a class="headerlink" href="#thread-safety" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The logging module is intended to be thread-safe without any special work
needing to be done by its clients. It achieves this though using threading
locks; there is one lock to serialize access to the module&#8217;s shared data, and
each handler also creates a lock to serialize access to its underlying I/O.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="configuration">
<h2>16.6.14. Configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="configuration-functions">
<span id="logging-config-api"></span><h3>16.6.14.1. Configuration functions<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration-functions" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The following functions configure the logging module. They are located in the
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.config</span></tt> module.  Their use is optional &#8212; you can configure the
logging module using these functions or by making calls to the main API (defined
in <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt> itself) and defining handlers which are declared either in
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt> or <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.handlers</span></tt>.</p>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.fileConfig">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">fileConfig</tt><big>(</big><em>fname</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>defaults</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.fileConfig" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Reads the logging configuration from a ConfigParser-format file named <em>fname</em>.
This function can be called several times from an application, allowing an end
user the ability to select from various pre-canned configurations (if the
developer provides a mechanism to present the choices and load the chosen
configuration). Defaults to be passed to ConfigParser can be specified in the
<em>defaults</em> argument.</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.listen">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">listen</tt><big>(</big><span class="optional">[</span><em>port</em><span class="optional">]</span><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.listen" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Starts up a socket server on the specified port, and listens for new
configurations. If no port is specified, the module&#8217;s default
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">DEFAULT_LOGGING_CONFIG_PORT</span></tt> is used. Logging configurations will be
sent as a file suitable for processing by <a title="logging.fileConfig" class="reference internal" href="#logging.fileConfig"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">fileConfig()</span></tt></a>. Returns a
<tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Thread</span></tt> instance on which you can call <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">start()</span></tt> to start the
server, and which you can <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">join()</span></tt> when appropriate. To stop the server,
call <a title="logging.stopListening" class="reference internal" href="#logging.stopListening"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">stopListening()</span></tt></a>.</p>
<p>To send a configuration to the socket, read in the configuration file and
send it to the socket as a string of bytes preceded by a four-byte length
string packed in binary using <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">struct.pack('&gt;L',</span> <span class="pre">n)</span></tt>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="function">
<dt id="logging.stopListening">
<tt class="descclassname">logging.</tt><tt class="descname">stopListening</tt><big>(</big><big>)</big><a class="headerlink" href="#logging.stopListening" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Stops the listening server which was created with a call to <a title="logging.listen" class="reference internal" href="#logging.listen"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">listen()</span></tt></a>.
This is typically called before calling <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">join()</span></tt> on the return value from
<a title="logging.listen" class="reference internal" href="#logging.listen"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">listen()</span></tt></a>.</dd></dl>

</div>
<div class="section" id="configuration-file-format">
<span id="logging-config-fileformat"></span><h3>16.6.14.2. Configuration file format<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration-file-format" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The configuration file format understood by <a title="logging.fileConfig" class="reference internal" href="#logging.fileConfig"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">fileConfig()</span></tt></a> is based on
ConfigParser functionality. The file must contain sections called <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[loggers]</span></tt>,
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[handlers]</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[formatters]</span></tt> which identify by name the entities of each
type which are defined in the file. For each such entity, there is a separate
section which identified how that entity is configured. Thus, for a logger named
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">log01</span></tt> in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[loggers]</span></tt> section, the relevant configuration details are
held in a section <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[logger_log01]</span></tt>. Similarly, a handler called <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">hand01</span></tt> in
the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[handlers]</span></tt> section will have its configuration held in a section called
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[handler_hand01]</span></tt>, while a formatter called <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">form01</span></tt> in the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[formatters]</span></tt> section will have its configuration specified in a section
called <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[formatter_form01]</span></tt>. The root logger configuration must be specified
in a section called <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[logger_root]</span></tt>.</p>
<p>Examples of these sections in the file are given below.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">loggers</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">keys</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">root</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">log02</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">log03</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">log04</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">log05</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">log06</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">log07</span>

<span class="p">[</span><span class="n">handlers</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">keys</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">hand01</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">hand02</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">hand03</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">hand04</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">hand05</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">hand06</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">hand07</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">hand08</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">hand09</span>

<span class="p">[</span><span class="n">formatters</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">keys</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">form01</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">form02</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">form03</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">form04</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">form05</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">form06</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">form07</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">form08</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">form09</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The root logger must specify a level and a list of handlers. An example of a
root logger section is given below.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">logger_root</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">NOTSET</span>
<span class="n">handlers</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">hand01</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">level</span></tt> entry can be one of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">DEBUG,</span> <span class="pre">INFO,</span> <span class="pre">WARNING,</span> <span class="pre">ERROR,</span> <span class="pre">CRITICAL</span></tt> or
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NOTSET</span></tt>. For the root logger only, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NOTSET</span></tt> means that all messages will be
logged. Level values are <a title="eval" class="reference external" href="functions.html#eval"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">eval()</span></tt></a>uated in the context of the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt>
package&#8217;s namespace.</p>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers</span></tt> entry is a comma-separated list of handler names, which must
appear in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[handlers]</span></tt> section. These names must appear in the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[handlers]</span></tt> section and have corresponding sections in the configuration
file.</p>
<p>For loggers other than the root logger, some additional information is required.
This is illustrated by the following example.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">logger_parser</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">level</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span>
<span class="n">handlers</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">hand01</span>
<span class="n">propagate</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">1</span>
<span class="n">qualname</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">compiler</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">parser</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">level</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">handlers</span></tt> entries are interpreted as for the root logger,
except that if a non-root logger&#8217;s level is specified as <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NOTSET</span></tt>, the system
consults loggers higher up the hierarchy to determine the effective level of the
logger. The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">propagate</span></tt> entry is set to 1 to indicate that messages must
propagate to handlers higher up the logger hierarchy from this logger, or 0 to
indicate that messages are <strong>not</strong> propagated to handlers up the hierarchy. The
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">qualname</span></tt> entry is the hierarchical channel name of the logger, that is to
say the name used by the application to get the logger.</p>
<p>Sections which specify handler configuration are exemplified by the following.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>[handler_hand01]
class=StreamHandler
level=NOTSET
formatter=form01
args=(sys.stdout,)</pre>
</div>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">class</span></tt> entry indicates the handler&#8217;s class (as determined by <a title="eval" class="reference external" href="functions.html#eval"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">eval()</span></tt></a>
in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt> package&#8217;s namespace). The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">level</span></tt> is interpreted as for
loggers, and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NOTSET</span></tt> is taken to mean &#8220;log everything&#8221;.</p>
<p>
<span class="versionmodified">Changed in version 2.6: </span>Added support for resolving the handler&#8217;s class as a dotted module and class
name.</p>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">formatter</span></tt> entry indicates the key name of the formatter for this
handler. If blank, a default formatter (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging._defaultFormatter</span></tt>) is used.
If a name is specified, it must appear in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[formatters]</span></tt> section and have
a corresponding section in the configuration file.</p>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">args</span></tt> entry, when <a title="eval" class="reference external" href="functions.html#eval"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">eval()</span></tt></a>uated in the context of the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt>
package&#8217;s namespace, is the list of arguments to the constructor for the handler
class. Refer to the constructors for the relevant handlers, or to the examples
below, to see how typical entries are constructed.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>[handler_hand02]
class=FileHandler
level=DEBUG
formatter=form02
args=('python.log', 'w')

[handler_hand03]
class=handlers.SocketHandler
level=INFO
formatter=form03
args=('localhost', handlers.DEFAULT_TCP_LOGGING_PORT)

[handler_hand04]
class=handlers.DatagramHandler
level=WARN
formatter=form04
args=('localhost', handlers.DEFAULT_UDP_LOGGING_PORT)

[handler_hand05]
class=handlers.SysLogHandler
level=ERROR
formatter=form05
args=(('localhost', handlers.SYSLOG_UDP_PORT), handlers.SysLogHandler.LOG_USER)

[handler_hand06]
class=handlers.NTEventLogHandler
level=CRITICAL
formatter=form06
args=('Python Application', '', 'Application')

[handler_hand07]
class=handlers.SMTPHandler
level=WARN
formatter=form07
args=('localhost', 'from@abc', ['user1@abc', 'user2@xyz'], 'Logger Subject')

[handler_hand08]
class=handlers.MemoryHandler
level=NOTSET
formatter=form08
target=
args=(10, ERROR)

[handler_hand09]
class=handlers.HTTPHandler
level=NOTSET
formatter=form09
args=('localhost:9022', '/log', 'GET')</pre>
</div>
<p>Sections which specify formatter configuration are typified by the following.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>[formatter_form01]
format=F1 %(asctime)s %(levelname)s %(message)s
datefmt=
class=logging.Formatter</pre>
</div>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">format</span></tt> entry is the overall format string, and the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">datefmt</span></tt> entry is
the <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></tt>-compatible date/time format string.  If empty, the
package substitutes ISO8601 format date/times, which is almost equivalent to
specifying the date format string <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;%Y-%m-%d</span> <span class="pre">%H:%M:%S&quot;</span></tt>.  The ISO8601 format
also specifies milliseconds, which are appended to the result of using the above
format string, with a comma separator.  An example time in ISO8601 format is
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">2003-01-23</span> <span class="pre">00:29:50,411</span></tt>.</p>
<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">class</span></tt> entry is optional.  It indicates the name of the formatter&#8217;s class
(as a dotted module and class name.)  This option is useful for instantiating a
<a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> subclass.  Subclasses of <a title="logging.Formatter" class="reference internal" href="#logging.Formatter"><tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">Formatter</span></tt></a> can present
exception tracebacks in an expanded or condensed format.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="configuration-server-example">
<h3>16.6.14.3. Configuration server example<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration-server-example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Here is an example of a module using the logging configuration server:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging.config</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">time</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>

<span class="c"># read initial config file</span>
<span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fileConfig</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;logging.conf&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># create and start listener on port 9999</span>
<span class="n">t</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">listen</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">9999</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">start</span><span class="p">()</span>

<span class="n">logger</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;simpleExample&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="c"># loop through logging calls to see the difference</span>
    <span class="c"># new configurations make, until Ctrl+C is pressed</span>
    <span class="k">while</span> <span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;debug message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;info message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;warn message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">error</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;error message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">critical</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;critical message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sleep</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mf">5</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">except</span> <span class="ne">KeyboardInterrupt</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="c"># cleanup</span>
    <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">config</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">stopListening</span><span class="p">()</span>
    <span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>And here is a script that takes a filename and sends that file to the server,
properly preceded with the binary-encoded length, as the new logging
configuration:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="c">#!/usr/bin/env python</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">socket</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="nn">sys</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="nn">struct</span>

<span class="n">data_to_send</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sys</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">argv</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mf">1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="s">&quot;r&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">()</span>

<span class="n">HOST</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s">&#39;localhost&#39;</span>
<span class="n">PORT</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">9999</span>
<span class="n">s</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">socket</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">socket</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">socket</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">AF_INET</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">socket</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SOCK_STREAM</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">&quot;connecting...&quot;</span>
<span class="n">s</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">connect</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">HOST</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">PORT</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">&quot;sending config...&quot;</span>
<span class="n">s</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">send</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">struct</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pack</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;&gt;L&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">data_to_send</span><span class="p">)))</span>
<span class="n">s</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">send</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">data_to_send</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">s</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">close</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="k">print</span> <span class="s">&quot;complete&quot;</span>
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<div class="section" id="more-examples">
<h2>16.6.15. More examples<a class="headerlink" href="#more-examples" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="multiple-handlers-and-formatters">
<h3>16.6.15.1. Multiple handlers and formatters<a class="headerlink" href="#multiple-handlers-and-formatters" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Loggers are plain Python objects.  The <tt class="xref docutils literal"><span class="pre">addHandler()</span></tt> method has no minimum
or maximum quota for the number of handlers you may add.  Sometimes it will be
beneficial for an application to log all messages of all severities to a text
file while simultaneously logging errors or above to the console.  To set this
up, simply configure the appropriate handlers.  The logging calls in the
application code will remain unchanged.  Here is a slight modification to the
previous simple module-based configuration example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="n">logger</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;simple_example&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># create file handler which logs even debug messages</span>
<span class="n">fh</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">FileHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;spam.log&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">fh</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># create console handler with a higher log level</span>
<span class="n">ch</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">StreamHandler</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">ch</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ERROR</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># create formatter and add it to the handlers</span>
<span class="n">formatter</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Formatter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="si">%(asctime)s</span><span class="s"> - </span><span class="si">%(name)s</span><span class="s"> - </span><span class="si">%(levelname)s</span><span class="s"> - </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">ch</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setFormatter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">formatter</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">fh</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setFormatter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">formatter</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># add the handlers to logger</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">addHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ch</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">addHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fh</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c"># &quot;application&quot; code</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">debug</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;debug message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;info message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">warn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;warn message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">error</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;error message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">critical</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;critical message&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Notice that the &#8220;application&#8221; code does not care about multiple handlers.  All
that changed was the addition and configuration of a new handler named <em>fh</em>.</p>
<p>The ability to create new handlers with higher- or lower-severity filters can be
very helpful when writing and testing an application.  Instead of using many
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">print</span></tt> statements for debugging, use <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logger.debug</span></tt>: Unlike the print
statements, which you will have to delete or comment out later, the logger.debug
statements can remain intact in the source code and remain dormant until you
need them again.  At that time, the only change that needs to happen is to
modify the severity level of the logger and/or handler to debug.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="using-logging-in-multiple-modules">
<h3>16.6.15.2. Using logging in multiple modules<a class="headerlink" href="#using-logging-in-multiple-modules" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>It was mentioned above that multiple calls to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging.getLogger('someLogger')</span></tt> return a reference to the same logger
object.  This is true not only within the same module, but also across modules
as long as it is in the same Python interpreter process.  It is true for
references to the same object; additionally, application code can define and
configure a parent logger in one module and create (but not configure) a child
logger in a separate module, and all logger calls to the child will pass up to
the parent.  Here is a main module:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">auxiliary_module</span>

<span class="c"># create logger with &quot;spam_application&quot;</span>
<span class="n">logger</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;spam_application&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># create file handler which logs even debug messages</span>
<span class="n">fh</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">FileHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;spam.log&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">fh</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DEBUG</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># create console handler with a higher log level</span>
<span class="n">ch</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">StreamHandler</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">ch</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setLevel</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ERROR</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># create formatter and add it to the handlers</span>
<span class="n">formatter</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Formatter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="si">%(asctime)s</span><span class="s"> - </span><span class="si">%(name)s</span><span class="s"> - </span><span class="si">%(levelname)s</span><span class="s"> - </span><span class="si">%(message)s</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">fh</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setFormatter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">formatter</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">ch</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">setFormatter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">formatter</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c"># add the handlers to the logger</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">addHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fh</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">addHandler</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ch</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;creating an instance of auxiliary_module.Auxiliary&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">auxiliary_module</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Auxiliary</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;created an instance of auxiliary_module.Auxiliary&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;calling auxiliary_module.Auxiliary.do_something&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">do_something</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;finished auxiliary_module.Auxiliary.do_something&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;calling auxiliary_module.some_function()&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">auxiliary_module</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">some_function</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;done with auxiliary_module.some_function()&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Here is the auxiliary module:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">logging</span>

<span class="c"># create logger</span>
<span class="n">module_logger</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;spam_application.auxiliary&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">Auxiliary</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">logger</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">logging</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getLogger</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;spam_application.auxiliary.Auxiliary&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;creating an instance of Auxiliary&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">do_something</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;doing something&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">1</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mf">1</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;done doing something&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">some_function</span><span class="p">():</span>
    <span class="n">module_logger</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">info</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s">&quot;received a call to </span><span class="se">\&quot;</span><span class="s">some_function</span><span class="se">\&quot;</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The output looks like this:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>2005-03-23 23:47:11,663 - spam_application - INFO -
   creating an instance of auxiliary_module.Auxiliary
2005-03-23 23:47:11,665 - spam_application.auxiliary.Auxiliary - INFO -
   creating an instance of Auxiliary
2005-03-23 23:47:11,665 - spam_application - INFO -
   created an instance of auxiliary_module.Auxiliary
2005-03-23 23:47:11,668 - spam_application - INFO -
   calling auxiliary_module.Auxiliary.do_something
2005-03-23 23:47:11,668 - spam_application.auxiliary.Auxiliary - INFO -
   doing something
2005-03-23 23:47:11,669 - spam_application.auxiliary.Auxiliary - INFO -
   done doing something
2005-03-23 23:47:11,670 - spam_application - INFO -
   finished auxiliary_module.Auxiliary.do_something
2005-03-23 23:47:11,671 - spam_application - INFO -
   calling auxiliary_module.some_function()
2005-03-23 23:47:11,672 - spam_application.auxiliary - INFO -
   received a call to "some_function"
2005-03-23 23:47:11,673 - spam_application - INFO -
   done with auxiliary_module.some_function()</pre>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="#logging-tutorial">16.6.1. Logging tutorial</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference external" href="#simple-examples">16.6.1.1. Simple examples</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="#loggers">16.6.1.2. Loggers</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="#module-logging.handlers">16.6.8.1. StreamHandler</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="#filehandler">16.6.8.2. FileHandler</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="#watchedfilehandler">16.6.8.3. WatchedFileHandler</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="#logrecord-objects">16.6.11. LogRecord Objects</a></li>
<li><a class="reference external" href="#loggeradapter-objects">16.6.12. LoggerAdapter Objects</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="#configuration-server-example">16.6.14.3. Configuration server example</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="#multiple-handlers-and-formatters">16.6.15.1. Multiple handlers and formatters</a></li>
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